Dr. Gabriela Baeza Ventura

University of Houston

Arte Púbilco Press

The Latinx Legacy: Building Our Future

The Account (La Relación), 1542

Alvar Núñez Cabeza De Vaca

Historia de la Nueva Mexico, 1610

Gaspar Perez de Villagra

El Misisipi, 1808-1810

One of the first Spanish-language publications in US

(New Orleans)

El Mulato, 1854

José Martí (Cuban)

María Amparo Ruiz De Burton, Californio writings

C. Loyal 1872; 1885

Pablo de la Guerra, Californio landholder

People v. de la Guerra

“Strangers in their native land”

Lucía (Lucy) González Parsons

American Labor organizer

Anarchist

Emilia Casanova (1832-1897)

La Liga de las Hijas de Cuba, revolutionary women’s club

Luisa Capetillo

Labor organizer, writer and anarchist for worker and

women’s rights, 1907 and 1916

Lucas Guevara,1914

Alirio Díaz Guerra, Columbian immigrant

First Novel of Immigration in the US

Mexican Immigration Novels

Conrado Espinoza (1926) / Daniel Venegas (1928)

María Cristina Mena

Role of Latinas in US Society, Early XX

Pelonas and Evas (Flappers and Eves)

María Cristina Mena

The Century Magazine and American Magazine

1913-1916

Leonor Villegas de Magnón

Mexican Revolution, La Cruz Blanca

Narciso Martinez &

Santiago Almeida

Jovita González1st Female And Mexican President Of The Texas Folklore

Society 1930-1932

“Mexicans Are NOT A Social Problem”

Américo Paredes

With A Pistol in His Hand

Franklin Roosevelt’s Works Progress Administration

project, a collection of narratives from NM 1930-1940

Carmita Landestoy, Dominican exile

¡Yo también acuso! (1946)

AMERICAN G.I.

FORUM

EMMA TENAYUCA

Antonia Pantoja

Founder of ASPIRA program for Puerto Rican youth 1960s

Enriqueta Vásquez

El Grito del Norte, Chicano newspaper from NM

1968-1972

Delilah Montoya, Chicana, photographer

Title IX, Civil Rights Act

Nuyorican

Literature

Liga

Puertorriqueña e

Hispana

Nicholasa Mohr

First Hispanic published by a major commercial publisher,

1973

Nuyorican Poets Café, 1973

Sandra María Esteves, Miguel Piñero, Miguel Algarín

Tato Laviera 1950-2013

Victor Villaseñor, Chicano

First Hispanic bestseller (1991)

Lucha Corpi

1st Chicana

Detective, 1990s

Judith Ortiz Cofer

One of the First Creative Writing Latino Faculty

Gloria Anzaldúa, Chicana, fronteriza

Queer writing

Dolores Prida, Cuban American playwright and writer

NY Daily News and Latina magazines

Josefina López, playwright and funder of

Casa 0101 Theater

Pura Belpré, First PR librarian for NY Public Library

Created bilingual story hours, Span-language books

and traditions in the 1920s

Pat Mora, poet and children’s book author

Founder of Childrens’ Day/Book Day

¡SALUD, FAMILIA!

Ofelia Dumas Lachtman

René Colato Laínez, Salvadoran American

XAVIER GARZA

Gwen Zepeda

Houston’s first Poet Laureate

Gloria Velásquez

Roosevelt High School Series

Carolyn Dee Flores

Illustrator

We Need Diverse Books Inaugural Mentor

Luis Valdez

Chicano playwright, Founder of Teatro Campesino

National Medal of Arts

Sandra Cisneros

MacArthur Fellow and National Medal of Arts Awardee

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