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Luisa Moreno

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The Resume

    (August 30, 1907-November 4, 1992)
    Born in Guatemala City,, Guatemala
    Birth name was Blanca Rosa Lopez Rodrigues
    Labor organizer, journalist, and civil rights activist
    Unionized workers, led strikes, and distributed pamphlets in English and Spanish
    Elected vice president of the UCAPAWA union in 1941

Why she might be annoying:

    She changed her name because her family disapproved of her labor activism.
    She was an inactive member of the American Communist Party from the 1930’s.
    This predictably came back to bite her in the end in the McCarthy era.
    She was issued a warrant of deportation in 1950, prompting her and her husband to flee to Mexico City.
    She eventually settled in Cuba, after Castro’s Communist Revolution in 1959, where she taught for several years before returning to Guatemala.

Why she might not be annoying:

    Her family emigrated from Guatemala to Oakland when she was a child.
    She took up work as a seamstress to support her family during the Great Depression.
    She gained first-hand experience of the poor working conditions and long hours faced by garment workers and it motivated her to fight for labor reform.
    She was the first woman and first Latino member elected to the Congress of Industrial Organizations (CIO) council.
    She organized the National Congress of Spanish Speaking Peoples, the first national Latino civil rights assembly, in 1938.
    She received death threats for speaking out against police brutality.
    She helped establish a committee to raise funds for legal aid to the Mexican Sleepy Lagoon defendants in 1942.
    She was threatened with deportation by Immigration officials unless she testified against fellow union leaders but she still refused.

Credit: BoyWithTheGreenHair


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