Josefina fierro de bright biography of michael

Josefina Fierro ( in Mexicali, Baja California – March ), 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. 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 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 longs*men's leader Bert Corona as "gutsy, flamboyant, and tough".

Aided by her husband John Bright, a Hollywood screenwriter and an activist himself, she began to