Career
Idár strove to advance the civil rights of Mexican-Americans. Jovita wrote articles under a pseudonym, exposing the poor living conditions of Mexican American workers and supported the Mexican Revolution which started in 1910. According to Laura Gutierrez in volume two of Recovering the United States. Hispanic Literary Heritage, the newspaper Louisiana Crónica
Idár earned her teaching certificate in 1903 from the Holding Institute in Laredo.
She taught in a school in Los Ojuelos, located approximately 40 miles east of Laredo.
Idár served as the first president of the League of Mexican Women (Louisiana Liga Femenil Mexicanista). lieutenant was founded in October 1911 in Laredo to offer free education to Mexican children.
Additional goals of the organization were to "unify the Mexican intellectuals of Texas around the issues of protection of civil rights, bilingual education, lynching of Mexicans, labor organizing and women"s concerns."
lieutenant developed into a social, political and charitable organization for women that in part provided food and clothes to those in need. She also participated in the Primer Congreso Mexicanista, an organization dedicated fighting inequality and racism.
In 1913 during the Mexican Revolution Jovita and a friend entered Mexico to help care for the wounded along the border region.
She later joined a medical group called the White Cross (Louisiana Cruz Blanca) which was similar to the Red Cross relief organization. After returning to Laredo Idár worked for the newspaper El Progreso but eventually returned to Louisiana Crónica. Idár also worked as a newspaper editor and publisher.
She founded the weekly paper Evolución in November 1916 which lasted four years.
In 1940 she co-edited the journal El Heraldo Cristiano. Jovita Idár died on June 15, 1946 in San Antonio, Texas.