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¡Hola! Me llamo Toussaint L' Ouverture, soy de Haití. Nací en 1743, soy soldado, pero primero fui esclavo. Vengo de una familia de esclavos. Luché contra los franceses para abolir la esclavitud. Fui capturado y asesinado en 1802, inspiré a mi pueblo a rebelarse. Haití consiguió la independencia en 1803 gracias a mí.

Source: https://slaveryandremembrance.org/people/person/?id=PP052

Hunter Hill

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Rigoberta Menchú

Yo nací nueve de enero de mil novecientos cincuenta y nueve en Guatemala. Yo nací en Mayan cultura. Mi familia y yo luchamos con guerilla efectivo y vimos mucha peligro. Por que los disturbios, me interesé en derechos de las mujeres y me uní la “Commitee of the Peasant Union” (CUC). Yo fui muy activa en eso. Entonces, yo enseñé muchas personas la importancia de resistencia a los militares. Me escondí en México cuando la participatión fue alta por Guatemala. Entonces yo dediqué mi vida a la “United Representation of the Guatemalan Opposition (RUO)” Guatemalans derechos. Después yo dije mi cuenta a Elisabeth Burgos Debray, yo era más bien conocido. En mil novecientos noventa y dos, yo recibí a “Noble Peace Prize” que fue cuando los Estados Unidos celebrabron quinientos años de exploración de Columbus para mostrar su eliminación de gentes indígena.

Donde yo obtenido la información:
https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/peace/1992/tum/facts/

Colleen Kelley

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Rigoberta Menchú Tum
The Nobel Peace Prize 1992

Residence at the time of the award: Guatemala

Prize motivation: "for her struggle for social justice and ethno-cultural reconciliation based on respect for the rights of indigenous peoples"

Prize share: 1/1

Work for the Rights of Indigenous Peoples

In 1992 the western world celebrated that it was 500 years since Columbus reached America. In the same year, the Guatemalan indigenous woman Rigoberta Menchú was awarded the Peace Prize for her work for the rights of indigenous peoples and reconciliation between ethnic groups. Indigenous organizations lobbied for her nomination, they wanted to draw attention to the fact that the European discovery of America had entailed the extermination and suppression of indigenous populations.

Rigoberta grew up in a country marked by extreme violence. Several members of her own family were killed by the army, which was hunting down opponents of the regime. She herself fled to Mexico in the early 1980s, where she came into contact with European groups that were working for human rights in Latin America. With time, Rigoberta began to favor a policy of reconciliation with the authorities, and Norway served as the intermediary in negotiations between the government and the guerrilla organizations. A peace agreement was signed in 1996. Rigoberta Menchú herself became a UN Ambassador for the world's indigenous peoples.

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Rigoberta Menchú Tum The Nobel Peace Prize 1992 Residence at the time of the award: Guatemala Prize motivation: "for her struggle for social justice and ethno-cultural reconciliation based on respect for the rights of indigenous peoples" Prize share: 1/1 In 1992 the western world celebrated that it was 500 years since Columbus reached America.

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Túpac Amaru fue el líder del Levantamiento más grande en la historia colonial hispanoamericana. El objectivo era comenzar una guerra y luchar para devolver al país a una tierra de "gobierno civil". Quería reducir la cantidad de control que el estado tenía sobre la gente y tratar de alentar las inversiones extranjeras entre ellos. Túpac fue asesinado junto con su esposa y otros familiares, pero el leyenda de Túpac perduró y la lucha continuó.

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Toussaint Louverture
Mi casa es Haiti, pero libertad debe estar en todas casas! Mis hermanos y mis hermanas luchabamos contra los franceses, pero libertad ganO. Haiti estaba libertad, pero nuestros amigos en Santo Domingo necesitaba nuestra ayuda. Me convertI en el gobernador de Santo Domingo y trabajaba mucho para construir la economIa haciendo conexiones con los estados unidos y los britAnicos.

Shuzon Talukdar
Toussaint Louverture | Achievements | Britannica

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Yo nací en Quito Ecuador en 1797. Yo luche por la igualdad de género en la región. Yo crecí en una familia aristocrática.  Durante mi juventud defendí los derechos de las mujeres y la independencia de Sudamérica de España. En 1822, me uni a Simón Bolívar en la lucha contra el imperialismo español. Por luchar por la igualdad me encarcelaron injustamente. Espero haber inspirado a muchas mujeres.

Brittany Bustamante

https://www.telesurtv.net/news/Manuela-Saenz-y-su-lucha-por-la-libertad-de-America-20141227-0010.html

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Hola, mi nombre es Simón Bolívar. Nací en Venezuela el 24 de julio de 1783. Luché en más de 200 batallas contra España para ayudar a Colombia, Ecuador, Perú y Venezuela a independizarse del imperio español. Me conocieron como "El Libertador". Al igual que los "Padres Fundadores" de los Estados Unidos, también pedí la abolición de la esclavitud en toda América Latina. Por último, quería unir a toda América Latina en una sola nación, pero no tuve éxito.

las fuentes: https://education.nationalgeographic.org/resource/simon-bolivar-day
https://www.unesco.org/en/prizes/simon-bolivar#:~:text=He%20was%20one%20of%20the,day%20republics%20of%20Bolivia%20and
https://www.nps.gov/nr/travel/american_latino_heritage/National_Mall_and_Memorial_Parks.html

- Alexa Kapoor

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Hola, estoy aparte de los Jóvenes Señores. Estamos basados en Chicago en los Estados Unidos. Nuestro grupo fue creado en septiembre de 1968. Luchamos por la idea de la autodeterminación para Puerto Rico. Abogamos por la inclusión y los derechos humanos. Nuestro líder se llamaba José Jiménez y se inspiró en el Partido Pantera Negra. Pudimos sacar a muchas personas de la pobreza con protestas por el cambio.

Aheen Hajibadri

https://guides.loc.gov/latinx-civil-rights/young-lords-organization

https://www.britannica.com/topic/Young-Lords

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Research Guides: A Latinx Resource Guide: Civil Rights Cases and Events in the United States: 1968: The Young Lord’s Organization/Party

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This Hispanic Reading Room research guide focuses on 20th and 21st century American court cases, legislation, and events that had important impacts on civil rights in Chicana/o/x, Hispanic, Latina/o/x, Mexican-American and Puerto Rican communities

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Me llamo Eloísa Díaz Inzuna y nací el 25 de junio de 1866. Soy de Santiago, Chile y soy la primera doctora mujer de medicina en Chile y el entero región de Sudamérica. En 1880, me inscribí en la escuela de medicina de la Universidad de Chile después de que se permitió a las mujeres asistir. En 1886, recibí mi grado médico y farmacéutico. Un año después, recibí mi grado de cirujano también. Me especialicé en ginecología y me centré en mejorar la atención médica para mujeres. Fui la supervisora médico escolar de Chile por más de 30 años. Además de ser médica, era filántropa. Mientras estaba en mi posición como supervisor médico de la escuela, hice reformas para ayudar a los niños de Chile. Por ejemplo,  fundé  jardines de infantes, creé policlínicos para estudiantes con recursos limitados, y organicé campamentos escolares.

https://chiletoday.cl/recognizing-dr-eloisa-diaz/

https://www.womensactivism.nyc/stories/3782

- Ash Chan

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Mi nombre es Elvila Carrillo Puerto y nací Motul, Mexico. Fui una activista que luchó por los derechos de las mujeres y quería crear un entorno igualitario para todas las mujeres en México. Tuve éxito porque en el año 1953, el presidente Adolfo Ruiz Cortines otorgó a las mujeres el derecho al voto en México. Más tarde me convertí en representante del estado de San Luis Potosí.

Source: https://www.spanish.academy/blog/mexicos-first-feminist-elvia-carrillo-puerto/

By: Palwasha Ghairat

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If you're a feminist who hungers to learn more about the struggle for equality that women have been fighting for all their history, you're going to love the story of Elvia Carrillo Puerto.

Born over a hundred years ago in a country known for its cultural machismo, Elvia Carrillo Puerto had an uphill battle to fight during all her life. However, she was the moving force behind the campaign that ultimately granted Mexican women their right to vote and hold office.

Keep reading to learn more about the life of the woman known as Mexico's first feminist, her inspiring fight, and her extraordinary achievements.

Who Was Elvia Carrillo Puerto?

Elvia Carrillo Puerto was a Mexican activist that fought for women's rights in the first quarter of the 20th century. She's known as Mexico's first feminist, although the fans of Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz may have something to say about that.

However, the difference between these two extraordinary Mexican women is that Sor Juana stayed only in the realm of ideas, whereas Carrillo Puerto was an activist that fought for her ideas to become reality.

When in 1953 Mexican President Adolfo Ruiz Cortines finally put into law women's right to vote, most people recognized Elvia Carrillo Puerto as the person most responsible for that huge achievement of Mexican women.

Elvia Carrillo Puerto Biography

In this short biography of Elvia Carrillo Puerto, I'm introducing you to the most important life events in this Mexican feminist inspiring story.

Elvia Carrillo Puerto was born on December 6, 1878, in the little town of Motul in the southeastern state of Yucatan. She was the sixth child of a middle class Yucatan family. Her brother Felipe went on to become Governor of the state and would work together with Elvia for the rights of women in Yucatan.

In school, Elvia Carrillo Puerto had the poet Rita Cetina Gutiérrez as a teacher who would leave a strong mark in her life, as she was the first one to introduce Elvia into the concept of gender equality. Thanks to Cetina Gutiérrez, Elvia was able to study the writings of women's rights theorists such as Flora Tristán, Victoria Woodhull, and Mary Wollstonecraft.

By the age of 13 she got married to Vicente Pérez Mendiburo, and just six years later she became a widow, being just 21 years old. From that point in her life, she worked tirelessly for the rights of women and founded many suffragette leagues in her permanent struggle to earn women's recognition to vote.

Elvia Carrillo Puerto was the first ever woman to be elected to the state legislature of Yucatan in 1923. When her brother was assassinated, she was forced to relocate to the central Mexican state of San Luis Potosí, where she was elected to the Mexican Congress. However, she was denied the seat as office-holding at the time was restricted to males.

Elvia Carrillo Puerto died on April 15, 1968, in Mexico City. She's buried in the general cemetery of Merida, Yucatan, and is considered a Mexican icon in the feminist movement. The Mexican Senate created an award with her name to recognize Mexican women that fight for the rights of women, and give it every day on May 8, International Day of Women.

What Did Elvia Carrillo Puerto Do?

Throughout her life, Elvia Carrillo Puerto never stopped fighting for women's rights and to create a more equal society than the one Mexico had at the time. She had success in her most important cause of them all, the right to vote, which was granted in 1953 to all women older than 18.

However, she did much more than just earning women the right to vote.

Female Peasants Organization

In 1912, Elvia Carrillo Puerto founded the first organization of female peasants that fought for women to get the same rights as men when it came to land distribution.

Rita Cetina Gutiérrez Feminist League

In 1919, she was also involved in the creation of the Rita Cetina Gutiérrez Feminist League, named in honour of her mentor and teacher.

This organization campaigned against prostitution, alcoholism, the use of drugs, and promoted child care, hygiene for poor women, and family planning.

As a result of this work, Mexico became the first country in the Western Hemisphere to legalize birth control.

Women's Right to Vote in Yucatan

When her brother Felipe became governor of Yucatan, she campaigned and achieved that her brother granted women the right to vote and hold office in the state. Then, in 1923, she became Mexico's first woman ever to be elected to a state legislature.

Sadly, soon after that great achievement, her brother was killed and she had to flee Yucatan due to different death threats that she received.

The progress made by Elvia Carrillo Puerto and her brother Felipe was erased from Yucatan law and women in the state lost their right to vote and hold office.

First Woman Elected to the Mexican Congress

In 1925, Elvia Carrillo Puerto was voted as representative of the state of San Luis Potosí in the Mexican Cámara de Diputados, which is the equivalent of the House of Representatives in the United States.

In doing so, she became the first woman ever to be elected to a national office by popular vote. The problem was that, at the time, some states had legalized female voting and the right to hold office, but the nation hadn't taken that step yet. So, she was denied her right to sit in the Mexican Congress and work in the creation of equal laws for all Mexicans, men and women included.

Today, the Mexican Congress has a 50-50 distribution between male and female legislators as required by law. In that regard, Elvia Carillo Puerto was way ahead of her time.

Elvia Carrillo Puerto Quotes

Here are some of the most famous quotes by Elvia Carrillo Puerto:

"Igualdad, respeto, reconocimiento."
"Equality, respect, recognition."

"No reprochamos a los hombres el alejamiento en que nos han tenido, todo es consecuencia de los prejuicios rancios y de los viejos moldes en que nuestras costumbres se forjaron, pero tiempo es ya que exigimos a los hombres que experimenten métodos nuevos."
"We do not blame men for the estrangement in which they have kept us, everything is a consequence of stale prejudices and the old molds in which our customs were forged, but it is time now that we demand that men experiment with new methods."

Visit Mexico and Practice Your Spanish

Known as La Monja Roja or "The Red Nun," due to her activities associated at the time with communist causes, Elvia Carrillo Puerto literally changed the course of Mexican history by bringing to the national discussion women's right to vote.

Speaking Spanish allows you to learn more about Mexican feminist icons and the rich history of this country. When traveling to Mexico, if you speak Spanish it gets easier to communicate with the locals and learn about their culture and history.

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Mexico's First Feminist: Elvia Carrillo Puerto

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If you're a feminist who hungers to learn more about the struggle for equality that women have been fighting for all their history, you're going to love the story of Elvia Carrillo Puerto. Born over a hundred years ago in a country known for its cultural machismo, Elvia Carrillo Puerto had an uphill battle to fight during all her life.

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Me llamo Domitila Barrios de Chúngara. En mi opinión, las luchas de la gente normal son las más importantes. Empecé a trabajar para mejorar la vida de las personas que trabajan duro. Por ejemplo, comencé una huelga de hambre. Mucha gente se unió a mí. Juntos, terminamos una mala dictadura. Después mi trabajo, escribí un libro sobre mi vida. He inspirado a personas en el mundo a luchar por buenas condiciones.

Source: https://nacla.org/blog/2012/3/15/remembering-domitila-making-bolivian-history

By: Pattie Douglas

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Bolivians paid tribute this week to Domitila Barrios de Chungara, long-time social activist, union leader, feminist, revolutionary, and national heroine who died March 13 in Cochabamba at age 74. She is best known as the miner's wife who led a hunger strike in 1978 that brought down the dictatorship of General Hugo Bánzer, paving the way for the return of Bolivian democracy.

"The democracy that we have been living since 1982 is thanks to Domitila," said Filemón Escobar, an original founder and ex-Senator of the Movement towards Socialism (MAS) party. President Evo Morales declared three days of national mourning and awarded Domitila the posthumous Condor of the Andes honor, the highest distinction the state can confer on a Bolivian citizen.

Domitila's life is a testimony to Bolivia's tragic history of exploitation, repression, colonialism, and patriarchalism, but also to the power of ordinary people to demand and effect change. Born in 1937 in Potosí, then the largest tin-producing region of Bolivia, she was the daughter and wife of a miner. Losing her mother at age 10, she raised five younger sisters and then seven surviving children of her own under conditions of extreme deprivation and poverty.

In the 1960s, Domitila became an outspoken leader of the Union of Miners Wives, organizing mining families for improved conditions and services and struggling against the repressive CIA-backed Barrientos regime. She survived the brutal 1967 San Juan massacre, where soldiers opened fire on striking miners and their wives and children, in part to head off a rumored alliance with Che's guerrillas fighting in the Santa Cruz mountains. In the ensuing repression, she was jailed and tortured, suffering a stillbirth and internal injuries which caused chronic health problems throughout her life.

In 1978, the hunger strike launched by Domitila and four other miners' wives against the Bánzer government (another US-backed dictatorship) captured the spirit of an entire nation. The strikers demanded freedom for imprisoned mineworkers, amnesty for exiled union leaders, demilitarization of the mines, and general elections. Thousands of Bolivians joined the strike and, on the 23 rd day, the government conceded to the protesters' demands. (Uruguayan writer Eduardo Galeano recounts the episode dramatically in Memories of Fire, his chronicle of Latin American popular history.)

Domitila gained international recognition at the International Women's Forum in Mexico in 1975, giving voice to the Bolivian mineworkers' struggle and the critical role of women activists. Let Me Speak, her autobiographical account of everyday struggles as a mother, worker, union leader, and political activist, was published in 1978 and has been translated into dozens of languages. In 2005, she was nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize on a slate of "1000 women for peace."

Domitila was in exile for several years, returning to Bolivia in 1982-just ahead of the massive neoliberal structural readjustment that closed the state-owned mines where she spent her formative years, and threw 30,000 miners out of work. In her last years, she focused her energies on developing a Mobile School for Political Training, bringing political consciousness and popular history to new generations in Cochabamba's most impoverished barrios-populated largely by the families of ex-miners-and to communities throughout Bolivia.

I was privileged to meet Domitila on two visits to Bolivia, in 2006 and 2008. She was a great story-teller, captivating us with anecdotes of modern Bolivian history from her unique perspective as a participant in the events, and conveying immense dignity, compassion, and determination along with her insights. Three hours later and only up to 1985, we almost missed our flight to La Paz.

As the Cochabamba daily Los Tiempos editorializes, Domitila was controversial in death as in life. Her independence and critical spirit caused discomfort for some, as much as it offered inspiration to others. She died in poverty with a reduced pension and no medical insurance, aided by the solidarity of friends and comrades including some ex-MAS government officials.

I was reminded of how, on our official visit to the legislative palace in 2006 to hold a press conference demanding Bolivia's withdrawal from the School of the Americas, Domitila was initially refused entry because she had forgotten her identification. Unrecognized by the palace guards, she appeared to them as just another stocky peasant woman without a valid reason to be in the halls of political power.

Domitila's life encapsulates all the possibilities and challenges of Bolivia, demonstrating both the efficacy of collective struggle and the continuing need to confront exploitation, inequality, and entrenched power relationships in government, the workplace, the home, and even within organized popular movements. Her experience reminds us how ordinary people can change the course of history, a legacy for activists throughout the world.

Read more Bolivian activism, including the TIPNIS conflict, on Emily Achtenberg's blog, Rebel Currents. See also, the January/February 2011 NACLA Report , "Golpistas! Coups and Democracy in the 21st Century;" the September/October 2010 NACLA Report , "After Recognition: Indigenous Peoples Confront Capitalism;" or the September/October 2009 NACLA Report , "Political Environments: Development, Dissent, and the New Extraction."Or subscribe to NACLA.

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Mi nombre es Cesar Chavez y nací en Yuma, Arizona en una granja. Durante ell Gran Depresión, mi familia nos perdimos nuestro granja. Empecé mi movimiento para los granjeros en 1960. Despues de ese, tuve una voz grandisimo con la comunidad. Expresé mis opiniónes en contra del Guerra de Vietnam. También, expresé que apoyado para los justos de los gays. Parte de la gente me amado, pero el otro parte de la gente odiado. Al fin y al cabo, ayudaba a muchos con me movimiento y mis ideas y este es tan importante.

Sources
About Cesar Chavez – Cesar Chavez Foundation
Cesar Chavez | Biography, Accomplishments, & Facts | Britannica

--Eric Howe

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Cesar's career in community organizing began in 1952 when he was recruited and trained by Fred Ross, a legendary community organizer who was forming the San Jose chapter of the Community Service Organization, the most prominent Latino civil rights group of its time. Cesar spent 10 years with the CSO, coordinating voter registration and get-out-the-vote drives, leading campaigns against racial and economic discrimination and organizing new CSO chapters across California.

Yet Cesar's dream was to organize a union that would protect and serve the farm workers whose poverty and powerlessness he had shared. He knew the history of farm worker organizing was one sad story after another of broken unions and strikes crushed by violence. He knew that for 100 years many others with much better educations and more resources than he possessed had tried, and failed, to organize farm workers. He knew the experts said organizing farm workers was impossible.

On his birthday, March 31, in 1962, Cesar resigned from the CSO, leaving the first decent-paying job he had ever had with the security of a regular paycheck. The Chavez family moved to Delano, California, a dusty farm town in California's Central Valley. With $1,200 in life savings he founded the National Farm Workers Association with 10 members - Cesar, his wife and their eight young children. The NFWA later became the United Farm Workers of America. Under Cesar, the UFW achieved unprecedented gains for farm workers, establishing it as the first successful farm workers union in American history.

In 1962, President Kennedy offered to make Cesar head of the Peace Corps for part of Latin America. It would have meant a big house with servants and all the advantages for his children. Instead, Cesar turned down the job in exchange for a life of self-imposed poverty.

Starting in the 1960s, Cesar and others in the movement made $5 a week, plus room and board. Cesar embraced a life of voluntary poverty, as did other movement leaders and staff until the late 1990s. He never earned more than $6,000 a year, never owned a house, and when he died at the age of 66 in 1993, left no money behind for his family.

When Cesar Chavez began building the farm worker movement, he knew it would take a strong union to remedy the economic injustices workers suffer at the workplace. He also realized it would require a movement to overcome the burdens of poverty, discrimination and powerlessness people endured in the community. Cesar began a burial program, the first credit union for farm workers, health clinics, daycare centers and job-training programs. With the help of the movement, Cesar built affordable housing - starting with a retirement home for the elderly and displaced Filipino American farm workers and later, multi-family and homeownership communities for farm workers and other low-income working families and seniors. He established two educational-style Spanish-language farm worker radio stations, the beginning of what is now the 13-station Radio Campesina network. He also established the Fred Ross Education Institute which trained negotiators, contract administrators and union organizers.

Cesar adopted historic strategies and tactics that were novel to organized labor. He demanded farm workers strictly adhere to a pledge of nonviolence. In 1968, Cesar's insistence on nonviolence drew dissent from some union staff and young male strikers who were frustrated by slow progress during the grape strike and anxious to retaliate against abusive growers. Some strikers and staff left the union during Cesar's 25-day fast for nonviolence, but he prevailed. Sen. Robert Kennedy came to Delano as the fast ended, calling Cesar "one of the heroic figures of our time."

Cesar had his second 25-day fast in 1972 in Phoenix, Arizona, over the enactment of the state's punitive law making it impossible for farm workers to organize. His last and longest public fast, at 36 days, was in Delano when he was 61 years old, and focused public attention on the pesticide poisoning of farm workers and their children.

Despite skepticism from some labor leaders, Cesar was the first to apply boycotts to major labor-management disputes. Millions of people across North America rallied to La Causa, the farm workers' cause, by boycotting grapes and other products, forcing growers to bargain union contracts and agree to California's pioneering farm labor law in 1975.

Because of Cesar and millions of Americans who supported farm workers by boycotting grapes and other products, under Gov. Jerry Brown, California passed the landmark Agricultural Labor Relations Act of 1975. This was the nation's first and still the only law guaranteeing farm workers the right to organize, choose their own union representative and negotiate with their employers.

Cesar came out against Vietnam War in the 1960s and was an early and outspoken supporter of gay rights in the 1970s. The UFW opposed penalizing employers for hiring undocumented workers and championed immigration reform as early as 1973.

The significance of Cesar's life transcends any one cause or struggle. He was a unique and humble leader, as well as a great humanitarian and communicator who influenced and inspired millions of Americans from all walks of life. Cesar forged a national and extraordinarily diverse coalition for farm worker boycotts, which included students, middle class consumers, trade unionists, religious activists and minorities. Cesar liked to say that his job as an organizer was helping ordinary people do extraordinary things.

Cesar passed away peacefully in his sleep on April 23, 1993 in the small farm worker town of San Luis, Arizona, not far from where he was born 66 years earlier. More than 50,000 people attended his funeral services in Delano, the same community in which he had planted the seeds of social justice decades before.

Cesar's motto, "Si se puede!" ("Yes, it can be done!"), embodies the uncommon legacy he left for people around the world. Since his death, hundreds of communities across the nation have named schools, parks, streets, libraries, and other public facilities, as well as awards and scholarships in his honor. His birthday, March 31st, is an official holiday in 10 states. In 1994, President Clinton posthumously awarded Cesar the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the nation's highest civilian honor. The U.S. Navy named a ship after him in 2011.

As a common man with an uncommon vision, Cesar Chavez stood for equality, justice and dignity for all Americans. His universal principals remain as relevant and inspiring today as they were when he first began his movement.

Cesar's voice empowered a movement. He was a powerful communicator with the ability to invoke relatable thinking amongst large groups of people from various backgrounds. His experience and perspective with the plight of the farmworkers provided deep insight for others to consider ways to help them overcome the injustices they faced on a daily basis. Regardless of who he was speaking to, his points were made clear through the messaging he delivered in each of his speeches and writings. He spoke with the conviction that ordinary people could achieve extraordinary things.

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Mi título es Tupac Amaru II pero mi nombre es José Gabriel Condorcanqui. Nací en el año mil setecientos cuarenta y dos en Surimana, Tungasuca, en la provincia del Cusco. Soy un cacique indígena. Mis padres murieron cuando yo tenía 12 años. Mis tíos me criaron después de la muerte de mis padres. Puede que me conozcas por ser quien lideró una gran rebelión andina contra los españoles en Perú. ¡Soy un rebelde peruano! Después de que me fui, mi gente se convirtió en un símbolo de independencia y libertad indígena. Era mi sueño ver a todos los indígenas peruanos libres e independientes del control español.

- Tony P.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/T%C3%BApac_Amaru_II

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Yo soy Rigoberta Menchú Tum y soy una activista muy influyente. Como una mujer indígena, abogo por los derechos de mi comunidad y otras comunidades de Guatemala. Yo he pasado mi vida luchando para communidades alrededor del mundo. En 1982, yo fundé La Representación Unida de la Oposición Guatemalteca where ha pasado años trabajando por los derechos humanos.

Rigoberta Menchú Tum – Biographical. NobelPrize.org. Nobel Prize Outreach AB 2023. Sun. 5 Feb 2023. <https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/peace/1992/tum/biographic

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Hola! Mi llema es Vincente Guerrero. Yo estuve el segundo presidente de Mexico. Cuado yo estuve joven yo junte el movimiento de independencia en mi pais. Despues Mexico ganado independencia de EspaNa mi amigo Agustin de Iturbide estuvo Emperador constitucional de Mexico. Cuando Iturbide muriO, yo convertirse el primero presidente de Mexico. Como presidente, yo eliminado la esclaviitud en mi pais. SegUn mi punto de vista traidores es el la razon mori.

Sources:
https://imagine-mexico.com/afromexican-vicente-guerrero-a-leader-of-liberty-independence-and-peace/

-James Washington

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Hola mi nombre es Toussaint L'Ouverture. También me puede conocer como François Dominique Toussaint. Nací en 1743 en Haití. Fui el líder del movimiento independentista haitiano durante la Revolución Francesa. Emancipé a los esclavos y negocié por la colonia francesa que ahora conocemos como Haití. En 1802 los franceses invadieron y decidí dejar de luchar mientras los franceses no restauraran la esclavitud. Luego me engañaron para que fuera a Francia, donde fui confinado e interrogado hasta que morí en 1803.

https://www.britannica.com/biography/Toussaint-Louverture/Command-of-Hispaniola

Alena Collins

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Me llamo Berta Cáceres. Soy de Rio Blanco, Honduras. Yo defendí los dereches de la gente Lenca. Organicé la comunidad indígena a proteger el Rio Gualcarque del gobierno y Sinohydro también. El Rio Gualcarque es un lugar espiritual para la Lenca. En 2013, bloqueábamos la carretera a la presa para más que uno año.

Como resultado, se fue y ganamos. En 2015 gané el Premio de Goldman para mi trabajo en el Rio Gualcarque.

Source: https://www.goldmanprize.org/recipient/berta-caceres/

By: Stephanie Peterson

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Hola, me llamo Virginia Bolen y soy de Argentina. Fui activista y periodista,y yo también tengo un esposo. Los derechos de las mujeres eran muy importantes para mí. Un parque en Buenos Aires fue dedicado a mí. Mi vida fue dura y traté de ser una voz para las mujeres en este mundo. Los derechos de la mujer son muy importantes.

-J. Gary