{"id":1207,"date":"2021-03-25T13:06:39","date_gmt":"2021-03-25T17:06:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.library.unt.edu\/sycamore-stacks\/?p=1207"},"modified":"2021-03-25T13:21:28","modified_gmt":"2021-03-25T17:21:28","slug":"texas-educator-annie-webb-blanton-had-a-few-things-to-teach-texas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.library.unt.edu\/sycamore-stacks\/2021\/03\/25\/texas-educator-annie-webb-blanton-had-a-few-things-to-teach-texas\/","title":{"rendered":"Texas Educator Annie Webb Blanton Had a Few Things to Teach Texas"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\"Annie<\/a>\n

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Annie Webb Blanton got her education career off to an early start, taking a job as a teacher in a one-room rural schoolhouse as soon as she graduated from high school at the age of seventeen.<\/p>\n

While earning her bachelor\u2019s degree at the University of Texas, she continued to support herself by teaching elementary and high school, scheduling her college courses during the summers while school was out.<\/p>\n

From 1901 to 1918, she taught English at North Texas State Normal College, an institution you may be more familiar with under its current name, the University of North Texas. Her no-nonsense textbook Review Outline and Exercises in English Grammar<\/em><\/a>\u00a0<\/em>was adopted in classes across the country.<\/p>\n

Blanton became active in the Texas State Teachers Association<\/a>, and in 1916 she was elected its first female president.<\/p>\n

With the help of fellow suffragists, who in 1918 had won the right to vote in Texas primaries, she ran for Superintendent of Public Instruction (forerunner of the current Texas Education Agency<\/a>), defeated the incumbent by a large majority, and thus became the first woman in Texas elected to a statewide office.<\/p>\n\"\"\n\"Vote\n

These are just a few of her myriad accomplishments as Superintendent:<\/p>\n