1. Luisa Capetillo was one of Puerto Rico's most famous labor leaders.
22 Facts About Luisa Capetillo
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Luisa Capetillo was an anarchist writer, activist, labor organizer who fought for workers' rights, women's rights, free love, and human emancipation.
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Luis Capetillo arrived in Puerto Rico at around the same time as Margarita, traveling with his family.
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In 1898, Luisa Capetillo had the first of her two children out of wedlock.
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Luisa Capetillo found a job as a reader in a cigar-making factory in Arecibo.
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In 1904, Luisa Capetillo began to write essays, titled Mi Opinion, about her ideas, which were published in radical and union newspapers.
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Luisa Capetillo was greatly influenced by her parents, her environment, her personal experiences and the literature she surrounded herself with.
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Luisa Capetillo's mother being of French descent, believed women should defend their ideals and act according to themselves.
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Luisa Capetillo strongly sided with George Sands' beliefs that the old liberated woman could be "revolutionary, both politically and in her personal life, opposed to marriage and to all social contracts that would regulate human relations, but willing to sacrifice everything in the name of love".
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Luisa Capetillo developed her ideals of anarchism and romanticism from the literature she read in her childhood.
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Luisa Capetillo read much of French writers like Victor Hugo and Emile Zola and of Russian Romantics like Leo Tolstoy.
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Luisa Capetillo's legacy inspired her even further as a writer.
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Luisa Capetillo wrote a play titled "Influencias de las ideas modernas" which clearly was motivated by his philosophies.
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Luisa Capetillo considered herself both an anarchist and spiritual person.
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Luisa Capetillo taught her children how to be a good Samaritan without having to follow a particular religion.
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Luisa Capetillo started a program of reading to the women who worked 12 hour shifts on the shop floor making cigars.
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In 1908, during the "FLT" convention, Luisa Capetillo asked the union to approve a policy for women's suffrage.
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Luisa Capetillo insisted that all women should have the same right to vote as men.
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Luisa Capetillo is considered to be one of Puerto Rico's first suffragists.
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In 1912, Luisa Capetillo traveled to New York City, where she organized Cuban and Puerto Rican tobacco workers.
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Luisa Capetillo traveled to Cuba and the Dominican Republic, where she joined the striking workers in their cause.
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Luisa Capetillo was sent to jail for what was then considered to be a "crime", but the judge later dropped the charges against her.