workingclasshistory:

On this day, 23 March 1894, revolutionary writer and advocate for women’s rights, Salvadora Carmen Medina Onrubia was born in La Plata, Buenos Aires. She started a relationship with a Uruguayan journalist called Natalio Félix Botana in 1915, and when he later became a powerful newspaper mogul, Salvadora used her new-found wealth to help the anarchist movement, working to free political prisoners, getting jobs for unemployed militants and distributing goods to poor women from her Rolls-Royce. She attempted to break famed anarchist assassin Simon Radowitzky out of prison, but after this failed she was able to use her influence to secure his release from the President. During the Spanish civil war she helped anti-fascist exiles and sent money to Republican orphans in Spain. More info in this short biography: https://ift.tt/2uBCAao https://ift.tt/2UNW076