Josefina fierro de bright biography of donald

Josefina Fierro (1914 in Mexicali, Baja California – March 1998^[1]), later Josefina Fierro de Bright, was a Mexican-American leader who helped organize resistance against discrimination in the American Southwest during the Great Depression.

She was the daughter of immigrants who had fled revolution in Mexico to settle in California.

Josefina fierro de bright biography of donald

She grew up in Los Angeles and the San Joaquin Valley.

Her mother emphasized the importance of education and urged Josefina to "Rely on yourself, be independent." In 1938 when Fierro was 18 years old, she entered the University of California, Los Angeles.

She planned to study medicine, but activism on behalf of the Mexican American community took up most of her time and effort. Fierro de Bright gave up her studies at UCLA to become an organizer, and her style was described by veteran longshoremen's leader Bert Corona as "gutsy, flamboyant, and tough".^[2]

Aided by her husband John Bright, a Hollywood