North America/ Mexico
She is the only transgender person to have a portrait in the Smithsonian’s National Portrait gallery. Born in the Bronx to from Venezuelan and Puerto-Rican parents, she is most known for her LGBTQ activism and participation in the Stonewall Riot of 1969.
Who is Sylvia Rivera?
K'iche' political and human rights activist from Guatemala who has dedicated her life to publicizing the rights of Guatemala's indigenous feminists during and after the Guatemalan Civil War (1960–1996), and to promoting indigenous rights in the country.
Who is Rigoberta Menchu?
Rita Moreno Puerto Rican actress who became the first Latina to have won a Peabody, Emmy, Grammy, Oscar and Tony award.
Who is Rita Moreno?
Bolivia's first indigenous and current president.
Who is Evo Morales?
The green Versace dress that this Latina wore at the Grammy's created Google images.
Who is Jennifer Lopez?
Before Brown v. Board of Education in 1954, the courts ruled it unconstitutional to segregate students of Mexican heritage into inferior schools. The plaintiff, Sylvia Mendez, sued after being turned away from a “whites only” public school in this state.
What is California?
Augusto César Sandino became recognized as a revolutionary. He lead the rebellion against presence of United States military forces in this country.
What is Nicaragua?
A civil and human rights organization whose mission is to fight for neighborhood empowerment and self-determination of Puerto Ricans, Latinos, and colonized ("Third World") people.
Who are the Young Lords?
This country is ranked the highest on the Human Rights Index which is a comparative measure of life expectancy, literacy, education and standards of living for regions worldwide.
What is Chile?
An indigenous people of the Caribbean and also the principal inhabitants of most of Cuba, Hispaniola, Jamaica, Puerto Rico, and The Bahamas
Who are Tainos?
He was a Catholic priest who launched the Mexican War of Independence and is considered as the father of the nation.
Who is Miguel Hidalgo?
It only takes up .03% of the planet’s surface but holds 5% of its biodiversity.
What is Costa Rica?
The birthplace of the first Hispanic woman elected to Congress, Ileana Ros-Lehtinen who emigrated to the United States when she was seven years old.
What is Havana, Cuba?
The first woman president in Latin America (1974-1976). She took over as president of Argentina after her husband Juan Peron passed away.
Who is Isabel Peron?
Country in South America where Gladys Zender, the 1st latina to win Miss Universe in 1957, was born.
What is Peru?
American labor leader and civil rights activist who, with Cesar Chavez, waps a co-founder of the National Farmworkers Association, which later became the United Farm Workers (UFW).
Who is Dolores Huerta?
Marta Matamoros is known for leading strikes in the 1940s which resulted in workers gaining maternity leave with pay and job security while they were on leave. "The Hunger and Desperation March" Matamoros led in 1959 resulted in the first minimum wage law in this country.
What is Panama?
He was inducted into the National Baseball Hall of Fame in 1973, becoming both the first Latin American and Caribbean player to be enshrined.
Who is Roberto Clemente?
The first country to declare their independence in South America (include year).
What is Colombia in 1810?
Birthplace of Luis Miramontes, the co-inventor of the progestin norethisterone used in one of the first three oral contraceptivesbirth control. His contribution has been recognized as one of the top 40 most important inventions.
What is Mexico?
This was a civil rights movement with the stated goal of achieving Mexican American empowerment as well as increasing Mexican American Civil rights
What is the Chicano Movement of the 1960s, Chicano civil rights movement, or El Movimiento?
The first country to ban smoking in your own home. Made to prevent smoking in closed public or private spaces and insists that smokers must stand at least six feet away from non-smokers in any open space.
What is Honduras?
An Afro-Cuban men's initiatory fraternity or secret society, also regarded as an Afro-Cuban version of Freemasonry.
What is Abakuá or Nañigo?
The first country in the Americas to achieve complete digital telephony coverage in 1997.
What is Uruguay?
Country that has won the most number of Men's FIFA World Cups in the world. Name the place and the number.
What is Brazil with 5?