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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]
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 ...
María Cadilla (1884–1951), women's rights activist; one of the first women in Puerto Rico to earn a doctoral degree; Luisa Capetillo (1879–1922), labor activist; one of Puerto Rico's most famous labor organizers; writer and an anarchist who fought for workers and women's rights; Alice Cardona (1930–2011), activist and community organizer ...
She established the Afro-Boricua El Coqui Theater to showcase Black Puerto Rican culture. In the 1970s, she spoke out about the racism faced by Black artists, including racist casting practices ...
Teresita A. Levy (born 1970), educator, historian, author of The History of Tobacco Cultivation in Puerto Rico, 1898-1940. [1] [2] M ... List of Puerto Rican women ...
This is a non-diffusing subcategory of Category:20th-century Puerto Rican people. It includes Puerto Rican people that can also be found in the parent category, or in diffusing subcategories of the parent.
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 ...
Liza Colón-Zayas is a Bronx-born Puerto Rican, and stars in The Bear as Tina. The actress will also appear in the upcoming Cat Person film, inspired by the viral New Yorker short story.