Luisa Capetillo

Luisa Capetillo was born in Arecibo, Puerto Rico, in 1879 to working class parents. She worked in cigar factories as a reader, where she first became active in labor organizing. A committed activist, Capetillo traveled throughout Puerto Rico, the United States, and Cuba to contribute to the international labor movement. She wrote extensively for the Spanish press, notably in La Mujer, a short-lived feminist working-class magazine that she founded. She is the author of many works relating to her...See more

Luisa Capetillo was born in Arecibo, Puerto Rico, in 1879 to working class parents. She worked in cigar factories as a reader, where she first became active in labor organizing. A committed activist, Capetillo traveled throughout Puerto Rico, the United States, and Cuba to contribute to the international labor movement. She wrote extensively for the Spanish press, notably in La Mujer, a short-lived feminist working-class magazine that she founded. She is the author of many works relating to her ideas, among them Ensayos libertarios (1907), La humanidad en el futuro (1910), Verdad y justicia: Cuento de Navidad para ninos (1910), and Influencias de las ideas modernas (1916). See less