Gregoria Ortega
Gregoria Ortega is a Mexican American activist and nun.
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Biography
Ortega was raised in El Paso, Texas.[1]
She became a nun at 18 when she joined the Victory Missionary Sisters, also known as Victory Noll.[1]
In 1970, she helped form a Chicano group to deal with issues facing Mexican Americans in the public schools in Rotan.[2] Also in the early 1970s, she started teaching religious education in the highly segregated schools in the diocese of San Angelo.[1] Ortega opposed the "severe physical abuse of Chicano/a students by their teachers.[3] She encouraged her students to learn about peaceful civil rights protests which led to a nine-day walkout which Ortega supported.[1] Ortega also helped support the students throughout the lawsuit which the students and their families brought against the Abilene School Board.[1] Without support from her superiors, alone, "she faced down police officers, judges, school principals and school boards."[4] Because of her involvement, she was expelled from the diocese.[1]
Ortega met Gloria Gallardo through a friend, Father Edmundo Rodriguez, and the two of them worked together to form Las Hermanas in 1971.[1]
References
Citations
- ^ a b c d e f g Medina, Lara (2009). "Ortega, Gregoria". In De La Torre, Miguel A. (ed.). Hispanic American Religious Cultures: A - M. Santa Barbara, California: ABC-CLIO. pp. 413–414. ISBN 9781598841398.
- ^ "Chicano Group Formed in Rotan". Abilene Reporter-News. 1970-03-24. p. 39. Retrieved 2017-09-18 – via Newspapers.com.
{{cite news}}: Cite has empty unknown parameter:|dead-url=(help) - ^ Medina, Lara (2005). "The Challenges and Consequences of Being Latina, Catholic, and Political". In Espinosa, Gastón; Elizondo, Virgilio P.; Miranda, Jesse (eds.). Latino Religions and Civic Activism in the United States. New York: Oxford University Press. pp. 98–99. ISBN 9780195162288.
- ^ Sandoval, Moises (March 2010). "Journey to the center of the church". U.S. Catholic. Retrieved 2017-09-18.
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