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Before Brown vs Board of Education (1954), there was Mendez et al. v. Westminster School District (1946). Learn more about Sylvia Mendez and this historic case leading to integration of LA-area schools www.uscourts.gov/about-federa...

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Say her name: NASA Astronomer Rosie Ferreira

Martina Arroyo | New York City Opera

Harlem-born soprano, Martina Arroyo www.nycopera.com/leadership/b...

El Maestro, Rafael Cordero y Molina aleteia.org/2019/09/07/t...

Celia Cruz Celia Cruz (1925–2003) was a Cuban American singer popularly known as the "Queen of Salsa."

Trailblazer, performer, Queen of Salsa, Celia Cruz nmaahc.si.edu/latinx/celia...

Pedro Albizu Campos (1891 - 1965) | Boricua.com Pedro Albizu Campos (1891 - 1965) was a Puerto Rican attorney, social activist, and politician known for his work in the Nationalist Party of Puerto Rico.

Scholar, activist, patriot. Pedro Albizu Campos boricua.com/pedro-albizu...

Activist, actor, dancer, choreogrpher: Sylvia del Villard www.womensactivism.nyc/stories/8097

How NYC's First Puerto Rican Librarian Brought Spanish To The Shelves When Pura Belpré became a librarian in 1921, she couldn't find Spanish language books for kids — so she wrote them herself. Belpré would go on to become a champion of bilingual library programs.

Pura Belpré Afro-Puerto Rican librarian who brought Spanish to the NYPL to serve the growing Latine/Puerto Rican disapora. www.npr.org/2016/09/08/4...

Arturo Alfonso Schomburg Arturo Alfonso Schomburg (1874–1938) was a Puerto Rican American historian, writer, curator, and activist.

Puerto Rican historian, writer, curator, activist, Arturo Alfonso Schomburg
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Came across this gem last night. Take some time to watch it www.psburnthisletterplease.com

Mother of the modern day trans rights movement, Sylvia Rivera. www.homosensual.com/cultura/hist...

Madame E. Toussaint Welcome - Renound silent era filmmaker www.harlemworldmagazine.com/legendary-ha...

Tressie Souders - Pioneering early cinema film director tellersuntold.com/tressie-soud...

LEGEND

Mary Ellen Bute - film animator, producer, director. www.centerforvisualmusic.org/Bute.htm

Fatima Begum - Early cinema film director, actor, screenwriter. homegrown.co.in/homegrown-vo...

Margaret Booth - Silent era and early Hollywood film editor womenfilmeditors.princeton.edu/booth-margar...

Alma Reville - Screenwriter, editor. www.brentonfilm.com/alma-reville...

Ruth Anne Baldwin - director, editor, screenwriter. wfpp.columbia.edu/pioneer/ccp-...

Dorothy Davenport - actress, screenwriter, film director, and producer. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dorothy...

Margery Wilson - Silent era director, actor, producer, acting coach, screenwriter and so much more! wfpp.columbia.edu/pioneer/ccp-...

Frances Marion - United Artists screenwriter time.com/4186886/fran...

Anita Loos - Hollywood screenwriter and novelist.
www.theguardian.com/film/2016/ja...

June Mathis - Early Hollywood film producer, screenwriter, casting director, and film editor www.altfg.com/june-mathis/

Mary Manning - filmmaker, film critic, co-founder of the Dublin Film Society wfpp.columbia.edu/pioneer/mary...

Germain Dulac - French filmmaker, film theorist, journalist and critic www.sensesofcinema.com/2002/feature...

Marion Wong - American company director, costume designer, director, actress, producer, music performer and screenwriter thestory.bar/blog/2018/9/...

Maria P Williams - Film director and producer filmschoolrejects.com/flames-of-wr...

Esther Eng - film director outhistory.org/exhibits/sho...

Mabel Normand - Early Hollywood film director and actor www.theguardian.com/film/2018/se...