Flashcards - Notable Hispanic Women

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Celia Cruz

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Cuban singer known as the "Queen of Salsa"

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Ellen Ochoa

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1st Hispanic woman in space of Mexican descent

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Sandra Cisneros

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Mexican-American author of "The House On Mango Street," a book about growing up in a Hispanic neighborhood in Chicago

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Loreta Janeta Velazquez

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Cuban woman who dressed as a man to fight as a soldier for the Confederate army

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Antonia Novello

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1st woman and 1st Hispanic born in Puerto Rico to become Surgeon General of the United States

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Nydia Velazquez

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1st female Puerto Rican to serve in Congress

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Sonia Sotomayor

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First Hispanic Supreme Court Justice; born to Puerto Rican parents

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Rita Moreno

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Only Hispanic to win an Oscar, Grammy, Emmy, and Tony award, played a lead role in the musical/movie West Side Story; born in Puerto Rico

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Hilda Solis

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1st Hispanic to serve on a U.S. Cabinet. Secretary of Labor; daughter of immigrants from Nicaragua and Mexixo

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Selena Quintanilla-Perez

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Known as the Queen of Tejano music.; of Mexican descent; famously crossed over into American mainstream music