Volume 18, No. 26.
Leolinda Figueiredo Daltro
Presenting this Brazilian woman and her instigating and plural performance in various sectors of national life in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries to the Spanish-speaking public is not an easy task, but, on the other hand, it is necessary to rescue, in Latin American memory, the struggle also in Brazil, for the recognition of the citizenship of indigenous peoples; for the demand for education for all and for the protagonism of women in a masculine society. It is with this in mind that the Journal of the History of Latin American Education honors in this issue - the teacher, feminist and indigenist - Leolinda Figueiredo Daltro. I use the bibliographical note of the curriculum vitae published on the cover of her book, published in 1918 - "Inicio do Feminismo no Brazil