Cecilia Gutierrez Venable
Ph.D. from the University of Texas at El Paso
M.A. and B. A. in history from Texas A & M University Corpus Christi
BlackPast board member
Cecilia Gutierrez Venable received her Ph.D. from the University of Texas at El Paso and her M.A. and B. A. in history from Texas A & M University Corpus Christi. Gutierrez Venable has worked in university, city, county and private archives and has taught history classes. She is currently working with the Sisters of the Holy Spirit as their historian and archivist. Gutierrez Venable has published several articles and books and is co-editing an anthology, Centuries of Voices on Black women in Texas. She is also working on a book about the foundress of the Sisters who built the first Black Catholic Church and School in San Antonio.
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Alexis Margaret Herman (1947- 2025)
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Yvonne Jeffries Johnson (1942- )
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Darius Carlos Rucker (1966- )
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Simeon Daniel (1934-2012)
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Holy Cross Catholic Church, Corpus Christi, Texas (1914- )
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