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On this day, 12 November 1946, revolutionary writer and feminist Elisa Acuña Rossetti died in Mexico City aged 74. In 1904 she was jailed for her radical activity, but she resumed it upon her release, in exile in San Antonio, Texas. She became part of the leadership of the anarchist Mexican Liberal Party, and with the outbreak of the Mexican revolution she joined the forces of peasant revolutionary Emiliano Zapata, heading up their propaganda efforts. Later she was heavily involved in supporting the rights of Mexico’s Indigenous peoples.
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