Elizabeth “Betita” Martinez

Elizabeth “Betita” Martinez has been a movement activist since the Robert F. Williams case in the late 1950s. She is the author of half a dozen books, including (1969), 500 Years of Chicago History (1976) and 500 Years of Chicana Women’s History (2008) and edited Letters from Mississippi (1964 and reissued 2002).

My Year of Transition
Against the Current, No. 133, March/April 2008