Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
Between 1992 and 1994, Dedé started the Mirabal Sisters Foundation and the Mirabal Sisters Museum to continue her sisters' legacy. [10] Dedé was the last surviving sister of the family. She died at the age of 88, and professed her entire life that it was her destiny to survive so that she was able to "tell their story". [11]
Finally, he approached the Manolo Tavárez Justo Foundation where the project received a warm welcome. It was also immediately well received by the Mirabal Sisters Foundation through Noris González Mirabal, a member of both foundations. At the same time, the Testimony Foundation joined the project, and they also had the idea of creating a museum.
Salcedo is the capital city of the Hermanas Mirabal Province in the Dominican Republic. It is the birthplace of the Dominican heroines, the Mirabal sisters, who died in the struggle against the dictator Rafael Trujillo. A museum in the town commemorates three of sisters; it was tended to by the remaining sister, Bélgica (Dedé) Mirabal, until ...
The Mirabal Sisters. Patria, Minerva, María Teresa, were three Dominican sisters who opposed the dictatorship of Rafael Trujillo and were actively against his regime. Their sister, Dedé Mirabal ...
Located at St. John's Methodist Church, "¡Time for Affirmative Consent!" combines the story of the Mirabal Sisters, in whose name the day honors, with performance and a silent auction. The ...
A recent article about the Mirabal sisters noted that they “may not have seemed the most likely revolutionaries,” but clearly, if one pays attention, the opposite is true. They, the Wilsons ...
María Minerva Mirabal Reyes (March 12, 1926 - November 25, 1960), or Minerva, was a Dominican political activist and revolutionary. She was the third of the Mirabal sisters, [1] Minerva and her sisters began to speak out against the oppressive dictatorship of Generalissimo Rafael Leonidas Trujillo and conducted clandestine activities against his regime.
María Teresa was the youngest of four sisters born into a wealthy family in the Dominican province of Salcedo (now, after a name change, it is called Hermanas Mirabal, or in English, Mirabal Sisters). Her parents were Enrique Mirabal Fernández and Mercedes Reyes Camilo. [1] Like her sisters before her, she attended Colegio Inmaculada ...