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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]
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 ...
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.
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 ...
The Mirabal sisters are Dominican revolutionaries and the subject of the Sisters of the Underground, a new podcast produced by Eva Longoria. Here's what to know. Eva Longoria and Dania Ramirez ...
The exhibition also travelled to the Bass Museum of Art, Miami Beach. In 2005, the CUNY Dominican Studies Institute inaugurated their archives with an extensive collection of Tito Canepa's letters, drawings and photographs, [16] [17] along with three paintings: Ojeda y Caonabo (1984), The Sisters Mirabál (1985) and The Gulf of Arrows (1987).
The Mirabal sisters’ efforts to challenge the regime cost them their lives, but it also sparked a revolution and made them symbols of both democratic and feminist resistance, as Time reported.