ChicanaDiasporic: A Nomadic Journey of the Activist Exiled

Chicana 1975

1975 NWPC meeting in Boston elects a Black Republican as chair, and a Chicana as vice chair. The Chicana Caucus elects its first chairperson, Olga Soliz, a centrist businesswoman from Houston. This conference is occurring at the same time as the International Women’s Year Conference in Mexico City, Mexico and is where the leadership of the political arm of American feminist movement finds out about the new face of the NWPC. New York representative Bella Abzug’s response, “how did you let that happen?”

IWY Mexico City is also the moment in the American Feminist movement where Black, Native and Chicana/Latina women voice the significantly different opinions from white women on what issues should be at the forefront of their collective movement. Chicana/Latinas meet women from Latin America, become aware of the oppressive military regimes in a number of Central and South American countries, including the tortures of Chilean women under Pinochet. Chicanas realize a solidarity with the  social justice issues of Latin American women finding similarities in strategies and outcomes. (FIX THIS)

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