Virginia Woolf wrote that Anonymous was a woman.
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Women and minorities have been kept out of history books until recently which is why I feel it's important to constantly acknowledge and support our accomplishments. A big chunk of our world history is missing. If we don't do something about it then who will? Woman's History month is an opportunity to learn and teach others things we did not learn in school.
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| Woman holding a young girl's hand in a wooded area near a house.Porto [sic] Rico--A typical back yard scene c1899. |
Puerto Rico, it's people and it's history particularly interest me since my family is from there. We have roots in Aguadilla, Carolina and Yabucoa among other places in the world.
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| Scene in mountain of Porto Rico on military road between Cayry and Aibonito. Woman and girl posed outside of home, Puerto Rico. c 1900 |
The following are just a few notable Puerto Rican women. They are fascinating, barrier breaking women with interesting stories. I hope they inspire you as they do me.
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Dr. Delma S. Arrigoitia, PhD, J.D., born in Arecibo 1945, was the first person in the University of Puerto Rico to earn a Masters Degree in the field of history.
Her written works:
* "Jose De Diego el legislador, San Juan"; by: Delma S. Arrigoitia; Publisher: Instituto de Cultura Puertorriquena,1991; LCCN: 93114065; LC: F1978.D54 A77 1991
* "Eduardo Giorgetti Y Su Mundo: La Aparente Paradoja De Un Millonario Genio Empresarial Y Su Noble Humanismo"; by Delma S. Arrigoitia; Publisher: Ediciones Puerto; ISBN 0942347528; ISBN 9780942347524
* "Puerto Rico Por Encima de Todo: Vida y Obra de Antonio R. Barcelo, 1868-1938"; by: Dr. Delma S. Arrigoitia; Publisher: Ediciones Puerto (January 2008); ISBN 978-1934461693
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Dr. Pilar Barbosa de Rosario born in Bayamón, Puerto Rico,July 4, 1898 – January 22, 1997. She was an educator, historian and political activist. In 1929, she established the Department of History and Social Sciences in the University of Puerto Rico and was its' director until 1943. She continued to teach at the university until 1967, the year she retired.
Barbosa was also very active in her father's cause (Jose Celso Barbosa, also known as the "Father of the Puerto Rican Statehood Movement") and served as political advisor and mentor to many of the politicians who shared her fathers dream, most notably those from the pro-statehood New Progressive Party, including former Resident Commissioner and now Governor Luis Fortuño and former Senate of Puerto Rico President and current Puerto Rico Secretary of State Kenneth McClintock. Her goal for the party was that it become known as the party of statehood and social justice.
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Sila María Calderón Serra (born September 23, 1942) is a Puerto Rico politician and businesswoman who served as the seventh Governor of the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico from 2001 to 2005. She is the first and to date only woman elected to that office. She was also Mayor of San Juan, Puerto Rico, the Capital of Puerto Rico from 1997-2001.
During her tenure, Mrs. Calderón gave particular attention to strengthening the economic, commercial and cultural ties between Puerto Rico and its Latin American neighbors. In recognition of her administration's efforts of collaboration between these countries and Puerto Rico, their governments bestowed upon her their most important civil orders: the Order of Duarte, Sánchez and Mella of the Dominican Republic; the Order of Núñez de Balboa of Panama; and the Order of Juan Santamaría of Costa Rica.
She chairs a philanthropic Foundation which has establish a non-profit and non- partisan entity –The Center for Puerto Rico: Sila M. Calderón Foundation—which gives attention to the issues of poverty, women, urban revitalization, ethical values and social responsibility.
Currently Governor Calderón was elected Trustee of the New York Public Library in 2007 and sits on the advisory boards of Primera Chicago and of the Health and Hospital Company (HHC) Foundation of New York City.
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Luisa Capetillo born in Arecibo(October 28, 1879 – October 10, 1922) was one of Puerto Rico's most famous labor organizers. She was also a writer and an anarchist who fought for workers and women's rights.
During a farm workers' strike in 1905, Capetillo wrote propaganda and organized the workers in the strike. She quickly became a leader of the "FLT" (American Federation of Labor) and traveled throughout Puerto Rico educating and organizing women. Her hometown, Arecibo, became the most unionized area of the country.
In 1908, during the "FLT" convention, Capetillo asked the union to approve a policy for women's suffrage. She insisted that all women should have the same right to vote as men. Capetillo is considered to be one of Puerto Rico's first suffragists.[3]
In 1912, Capetillo traveled to New York City, where she organized Cuban and Puerto Rican tobacco workers. Later on, she went to Tampa, Florida, where she also organized the workers. In Florida, she published the second edition of "Mi Opinión". She also traveled to Cuba and the Dominican Republic, where she joined the striking workers in their cause.
In 1919, she challenged the mainstream society by becoming the first woman in Puerto Rico to wear pants in public. Capetillo was sent to jail for what was then considered to be a "crime", but, the judge later dropped the charges against her. In that same year, along with other labor activists, she helped pass a minimum-wage law in the Puerto Rican Legislature.
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You can find a post about Female Puerto Rican authors on my other blog: Notes on the Art of Writing
or copy url: http://bellavidawrites.blogspot.com/
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All photos are from the Library of Congress.
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