Carolina Malpica Munguía (January 14, 1891 – May 25, 1977) was an educator and community activist in San Antonio, Texas.
[5] Due to Munguía's husband's controversial status as a revolutionary, the family was exiled from Mexico and moved to San Antonio, Texas, in 1926.
[1] In her early years in San Antonio, Munguía taught Spanish at the Wesleyan Institute, which later became Trinity University.
[6] After finding economic stability for her family, Munguía decided to become an activist for the Mexican community La Raza in San Antonio.
[3] The slogan for the organization was “Toda por la patria y el hogar” ("All for country and home"), designed around the revitalization of the Mexican and Mexican-American community.
[1] During her tenure at Crockett, she had the Spanish-Speaking PTA raise money for clothes and shoes for the students and create Christmas baskets for their families.
[3] In 1952 Munguía helped her husband start a cross-cultural community organization called "El Patronato" (The Board) to support extension courses offered by the National Autonomous University of Mexico in San Antonio.
The continued efforts of El Patronato eventually led to the establishment of a satellite campus of UNAM in San Antonio in 1972.