Olga Custodio
The first Latina U.S. military pilot
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Dr Adela S Valdez
The first Hispanic administrator to serve at South Texas Hospital, Harlingen, Texas.
Frances Dias Gustavson
Frances Dias Gustavson applied for the WASPS in 1943. After completing her training at Houston Municipal Airport in Texas, she was assigned to the Love Field in Dallas, Texas. After the war, she competed in the All Women Transcontinental Air Race held by the Ninety-Nines in 1951.
Petra Romero
1800s owner and operator of a dance hall in Death Valley called Waterfall Dance House or “Madam Moore’s.”
Ynes Mexia
One of the most successful botanists and female plant collectors of her time; she did not begin her career until she was 55 years old.
Emma Tenayuca
Emma Tenayuca was a Mexican-American labor organizer and civil rights activist who led strikes by women workers in Texas in the 1930s.
Inez Haynes Gillmore Irwin
American suffragist and writer
Lucy Parsons
Prominent African-American social anarchist and later anarcho-communist
Maria Quitéria de Jesus
1800s Brazilian lieutenant and national heroine
Rafaela Herrera
National heroine of Nicaragua who defended the Fortress of the Immaculate Conception against the British forces during the Battle for the Río San Juan de Nicaragua in 1762.