US: Hispanic American Women - Latinas

Hispanic women have contributed to the culture of the world and to American history. In this list, I've focused on a few women of Hispanic heritage in the New World.

HIstory of the organization founded in 1974 to fight for legal rights for poor Mexican-American women. While this article also covers the national organization's history, it focuses on Texas projects.

The story of a woman of Chinese descent whose family lived in Peru, and who, with her parents, remigrated to the United States - thus giving her both an Asian-American heritage and a Latina heritage.

"By, for and about Chicanas, meaning women of Mexican descent in the United States."  Includes biographies, poetry and literature, articles.