Vivian Castleberry
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Jody Furnish oral history
I am doing more work on my book about Dallas women’s page editor Vivian Castleberry – focusing on transcribing an oral history about Dallas activist Jody Furnish that is at the Sixth Floor Museum. Vivian won numerous other awards for her reporting. For example, in 1970, she won the award for best women’s feature for the story “Neighborhood Power,” that examined a successful integrated Dallas neighborhood. In it, she wrote about one of the first integrated Dallas neighborhoods. It was a part of the community that was bounded on the north by Lovers Lane and on the east by Inwood, and on the south, by Mockingbird Lane and on the…
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Dallas fashion editor Yvonne Pendleton
Yesterday, I watched and transcribed the videotaped oral history of Dallas fashion editor Yvonne Pendleton. (She worked for women’s page editor Vivian Castleberry.)It is available at the Sixth Floor Museum. Yvonne, who was hired at age 23, said of Vivian: “I was so taken. Here was a career woman with children. One of the first I had ever met.” Yvonne came to Dallas from Alabama in October 1971. A week later, she was in New York City covering the fashion shows – the youngest fashion editor for a major newspaper. Dallas was a major fashion city so she got a seat in the front row. She spoke about Vivian’s progressive…
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Dallas fashion editor Yvonne Pendleton
Yesterday, I watched and transcribed the videotaped oral history of Dallas fashion editor Yvonne Pendleton. (She worked for women’s page editor Vivian Castleberry.)It is available at the Sixth Floor Museum. Yvonne, who was hired at age 23, said of Vivian: “I was so taken. Here was a career woman with children. One of the first I had ever met.” Yvonne came to Dallas from Alabama in October 1971. A week later, she was in New York City covering the fashion shows – the youngest fashion editor for a major newspaper. Dallas was a major fashion city so she got a seat in the front row. She spoke about Vivian’s progressive…
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Vivian Castleberry business book
Yesterday I received this book that Dallas women’s page editor Vivian Castleberry wrote. In it, she examines the business climate for women in her city. While a rather conservative community, there were several prominent business women. Take for example, Mary Kay Ash – creator of Mary Kay Cosmetics and and Bette Nesmith Graham – creator of Liquid Paper. (Her son became part of the band, the Monkees.) This from a 2004 Dallas Morning News article in the Vivian and her friend Louise Raggio (family law attorney): They “chose professions that were traditionally male-dominated – especially in conservative post-war Dallas – not terribly welcoming to the few women in their ranks.…
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Vivian Castleberry business book
Yesterday I received this book that Dallas women’s page editor Vivian Castleberry wrote. In it, she examines the business climate for women in her city. While a rather conservative community, there were several prominent business women. Take for example, Mary Kay Ash – creator of Mary Kay Cosmetics and and Bette Nesmith Graham – creator of Liquid Paper. (Her son became part of the band, the Monkees.) This from a 2004 Dallas Morning News article in the Vivian and her friend Louise Raggio (family law attorney): They “chose professions that were traditionally male-dominated – especially in conservative post-war Dallas – not terribly welcoming to the few women in their ranks.…
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Vivian Castleberry and Louise Raggio
Today I am writing about the relationship between Dallas women’s page editor Vivian Castleberry and groundbreaking Dallas attorney Louise Raggio. Vivian is included in the above video, as are several articles that Vivian ran about Louise over the years. The two women co-authored the book, Texas Tornado: The Autobiography of a Crusader for Women’s Rights and Family Justice. They were powerful advocates for women in Dallas.
