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María Rebeca Latigo de Hernández, Mexican immigrant rights activist, gets a Google doodle

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The Google logo on Google’s home page in the United States, Mexico, Argentina, Chile, Peru, Singapore and Uruguay celebrates the life and achievements of María Rebeca Latigo de Hernández.

María Rebeca Latigo de Hernández was a Mexican-American rights activist who fought for the rights of Mexican immigrants. She was born in San Pedro Garza García, Mexico on July 29, 1896 — 122 years ago. She was married in 1915, at the age of 19, to Pedro Hernández Barrera in Hebbronville, Texas. They had 10 children.

She was an activist against the segregation, racial oppression and poor education that the Mexican American children were receiving.

She passed at the age of 89 on January 8, 1986, in Texas.

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