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Cadilla earned her master's degree from the University of Puerto Rico. She went to Spain where she attended the Central University of Madrid. Among her professors were the Spanish writer Américo Castro and poet Dámaso Alonso. She earned her doctoral degree in 1933 with the thesis La Poesia Popular de Puerto Rico (The Popular Poetry of Puerto ...
Among the women who became educators and made notable contributions to the educational system of the island were Concha Meléndez, the first woman to belong to the Puerto Rican Academy of Languages, [52] [53] [54] Pilar Barbosa, a professor at the University of Puerto Rico who was the first modern-day Official Historian of Puerto Rico, and Ana ...
She was the first person of Hispanic heritage and the first of approximately 200 Puerto Rican women who would serve in the Women's Army Corps during World War II. [2] The unit arrived in Northern Africa on January 27, 1943, and rendered overseas duties in Algiers, in General Dwight D. Eisenhower’s theatre headquarters. The women who served ...
Liga Social Sufragista (“the Suffragist Social League”), initially named Liga Femínea Puertorriqueña (“The Puerto Rican Feminine League”), was a women's organization on Puerto Rico, founded in 1917. [1] It was founded by Ana Roque de Duprey in 1917, after suffrage had been introduced at Puerto Rico by the Jones Act exclusively for men ...
On May 29, 2014, The Legislative Assembly of Puerto Rico honored 12 illustrious women with plaques in the "La Plaza en Honor a la Mujer Puertorriqueña" (Plaza in Honor of Puerto Rican Women) in San Juan. According to the plaques the 12 women, who by virtue of their merits and legacies, stand out in the history of Puerto Rico.
First woman in Puerto Rico and in all of Latin America to be elected to a government legislative body. [24] María de Pérez Almiroty, first woman elected to the Senate of Puerto Rico; Sila María Calderón, governor. First woman governor of Puerto Rico, elected in November 2000. She was the former mayor of San Juan. [25]
In 1963, the New York Daily News ran stories about an underground, word-of-mouth network of doctors in Puerto Rico who performed abortions on American women, from “suburban society matrons” to ...
García Rosado was the seventh of nine siblings born in Humacao, Puerto Rico to Jesus García Doble and Maria Rosado Arce de García. Her father was the foremen of a sugar plantation who would often be assigned to work in Cuba and the Dominican Republic, thus inspiring the desire within García Rosado to travel and see the world beyond Puerto Rico.