ELIZABETH "BETITA" MARTINEZ |
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Elizabeth “Betita” Martinez is a Chicana feminist and a long-time community organizer, activist, author, and educator. She has written a number of books and articles on different topics relating to social movements in the United States. Her book 500 years of Chicana women’s history /500 años de la mujer Chicana unleashes the struggles Chicanas have gone through with vivid stories and numerous pictures. Martinez was a link between the Black Power and Chicano movements in the 1960s and in 1968, she decided to channel her passion for justice into the Chicano Movement and founded El Grito Del Norte, a Chicano monthly community newspaper. She was active as a participant and reporter on many Chicano political events and issues throughout the rise of the Chicano civil rights movement.
Elizabeth "Betita" Martinez, winner of the San Francisco Foundation 2008 Community Leadership Awards (The San Francisco Foundation Award) - for building unity and alliances across traditional racial and gender lines, and for serving as a selfless and inspirational advocate for oppressed peoples around the world. (2009)
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All images from Google.com