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María Rebecca Latigo de Hernández was born in 1896 in Garza García near Monterrey, Nuevo
León, Mexico.
Her father was a professor.
As a young adult, she lived in Monterrey, Mexico and worked as an elementary school
teacher.
She got married in 1915 at the age of 19 to Pedro Hernández Barrera.
They were married in Hebbronville, Texas.
They moved to San Antonio, in 1918, where they settled down, and their family eventually
grew to include 10 children.
The family owned and ran a grocery store and bakery.
She fought for and wrote against the segregation, racial oppression, and poor education that
the Mexican American children were receiving.
In 1929, the Hernández family helped to organize and found the Order of the Knights of America,
or the Orden Caballeros de America.
The Order of Knights of America was a committee dedicated to political and civil activists
in order to help Mexican Americans as well as Mexican immigrants.
They helped with matters including educational and social, but the organization was largely
focused on educational matters.
The main audience targeted by their organization was Mexican American business owners.
However, they also set a goal to help both male and female school aged children.
In 1932, María Rebecca Latigo de Hernández was the first Mexican female announcer on
the radio.
In 1933, she helped open an association to help expecting mothers, which was known as
Asociación Protectora de Madres.
In 1934, María, along with her husband and children, help to regulate an organization
which helped to create safe places and better the education for the West Side Mexican Communities.
It was named La Liga de Defensa Pro-Escolar.
In connection to her radio career, she spoke to promote Council 16 of the League of United
Latin American Citizens on a program called the "Voz de las Americas."
The league became well regulated in December 1934.
She supported the efforts of the league in 1940 and then again in 1947.
During the years with the league, she helped to encourage the equality for all Mexican
Americans, no matter where they were from or where they were living.
In 1938, María Rebecca Latigo de Hernández began working with the Pecan-Shellers' Strike,
with a cause for women workers' rights.
The strike had begun as a way for the women to obtain safer working conditions as well
as increased salaries.
In 1939, she was included in a group of women, who were able to visit the Mexican President,
Lázaro Cárdenas.
The women went to communicate the good will between the Mexicans from Mexico and the Mexican
Americans found in the United States.
In 1945, "México y Los Cuatro Poderes Que Dirigén al Pueblo" was published.
In the essay, it was said that domestic sphere founded society.
It also stated that mothers were the creators of nations.
Close to the time that her essay was published, she was also involved in organizing Club Liberal
Pro-Cultura de la Mujer.
In 1968, she was a regular guest on San Antonio television, informing the public about education
and social progress.
In 1969, María Rebecca Latigo de Hernández was appointed the position of Treasurer of
the order's board of directors, as well as the President of Circulo Social.
In 1970, she grew her political activities by joining the Raza Unida Party.
She served as a key-note speaker at the Raza Unida's Statewide Conference, located in Austin,
Texas.
On January 8, 1986, she died from pneumonia.
She is buried in the plot of the Orden Caballeros de América outside of Elmendorf, Texas.
It was desired for her to be buried there as a symbol from the Mexican American people,
to show respect towards her life's works.
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