Letters from Mississippi / edited and Introduced by Elizabeth Sutherland Martínez
; preface by Julian Bond, 2007
Wikipedia, 2021-06-29
Information trouvée : Elizabeth "Betita" Martínez (December 12, 1925 – June 29, 2021) was an American Chicana
feminist and a long-time community organizer, activist, author, and educator. She
wrote numerous books and articles on different topics relating to social movements
in the Americas. Her best-known work is the bilingual 500 years of Chicano History
in Pictures. er parents nicknamed her "Betita" for short.ome of Martínez's first jobs
included a clerk-typist at an insurance company, a waitress at an ice-cream store,
and a copy girl at the Washington Post.[4] Martínez was the first Latina student to
graduate from Swarthmore College in 1946 where she received a Bachelor of Arts degree
with Honors in History and Literature. When Martínez was twenty-three she married
her first husband Leonard Berman and then divorced in 1952. She married her second
husband Hans Koning in 1952 and they had their daughter Tessa Koning-Martínez together
in 1954. Martínez worked for Simon & Schuster as an editor and for The Nation Magazine
as Books and Arts Editor.
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