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Lolita Lebron
Collection: Puerto Rico
Lolita Lebron on Puerto Rican independence speaks in San Francisco, date unknown. Subjects include abortion, forced sterlization of Puerto Rican women, and genocide. Draws from her own experience as a political prisoner and discusses their feelings of abandonment, isolation and obscurity. Makes parallels between Vietnam's victory over the US (in which the American people were complicit) and Puerto Rico's own liberation.
La Lucha Continua
La Lucha Continua/The Struggle Continues; a mural located in the Mission at 3260 23rd St - between Mission and Capp Streets in San Francisco. features 35 portraits of activists, philosophers and artists and their recorded voices accessible via cell phone.
Radio report of Lolita's arrest in 1954, including her statement
Publisher: Freedom ArchivesCollection: La Lucha Continua: a talking mural in San Francisco
Interview with Lebron after her arrest for the shooting of US Congressman Alvin Bentley in 1954.
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