Women of Hope Poster Collection 1995

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Women of Hope Poster Collection 1995

This collection contains 12 posters showcasing influential Hispanic American women. Each poster consists of a photographic image (photographs by Idaljiza Liz-Lepiorz) and a quotation by one of the women.

1 folder (12 posters ; 18 x 24 in.)

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SNAC Resource ID: 6404790

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Huerta, Dolores, 1930-

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Dolores Huerta (born April 10, 1930) is an American labor leader and civil rights activist who, with Cesar Chavez, is a co-founder of the National Farmworkers Association, which later merged with the Agricultural Workers Organizing Committee to become the United Farm Workers (UFW). Huerta helped organize the Delano grape strike in 1965 in California and was the lead negotiator in the workers' contract that was created after the strike. Huerta has received numerous awards including the Eugene V....

Velázquez, Nydia, 1953-

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Nydia Margarita Velázquez Serrano (born March 28, 1953) is an American politician. A member of the Democratic Party, she has served in the U.S. House of Representatives since 1993. Her district was numbered the 12th district from 1993 to 2013; it has been numbered the 7th district since 2013. Velázquez is the first Puerto Rican woman to serve in the United States Congress. Born in the town of Limones in the municipality of Yabucoa, Puerto Rico, she became the first in her family to graduate f...

Colon, Miriam

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Sol Gutiérrez, Ana

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Pantoja, Antonia

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Cisneros, Sandra

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Sandra Cisneros was born on December 20, 1954 and raised in Chicago. Cisneros is the daughter of a Mexican father and a Mexican-American mother. She was educated in the Midwest before moving to the Southwest in 1984. Cisneros graduated from the Iowa Writer's Workshop, and has lived in San Antonio for most of the last twenty years. She has worked as a teacher to high school dropouts, a poet-in-the-schools, a college recruiter, an arts administrator, and most recently, as a visiting writer at a nu...

Hernández, Antonia.

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Alvarez, Julia

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León, Tania

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Bread and Roses Cultural Project

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Rodríguez-Triás, Helen

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Ocampo, Adriana C.

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Liz-Lepiorz, Idaljiza

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Mesa-Bains, Amalia

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