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The Case of Luisa Moreno
The FBI harassed her. The U.S. government deemed her an un-American communist. The Immigration and Naturalization Service nearly deported her. But Luisa Moreno dedicated herself to civil rights and to improving working conditions for laborers, especially Latinas.
The Guatemala-born labor organizer brought together more than 100 groups in 1938 for El Congresso de Pueblos de Habla Espanola, the Spanish-Speaking People's Congress. The organization advocated for fair treatment of Latino/a laborers in the United States, both immigrants and citizens, and was one of the first U.S. assembled focused on Latino/a civil rights. |