Laura Meneses

Laura Meneses del Carpio (Arequipa, Peru, March 31, 1894 - Havana, Cuba, April 15, 1973) was the first Latin American in 1920 to be accepted into Radcliffe College, the women's educational institution affiliated with Harvard University.[1] Meneses studied natural sciences at the Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos in Lima, Peru, graduating with a bachelor's degree in biology in 1913.[2][3] In 1920, on the recommendation of the family of a Peruvian composer residing in Boston,[1] Meneses enrolled in the all-female Radcliffe College in Cambridge, Massachusetts (which today is a part of Harvard).[2][3] In 1937, Albizu Campos and the other Puerto Rican Nationalist leaders were sentenced to the federal penitentiary in Atlanta; he was not released for almost eleven years.[2] Later that same year, Meneses moved with her children to Havana, Cuba, on behalf of her husband to denounce American imperialism there and in Puerto Rico.
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