Born: 12 December 1925, United States
Died: 29 June 2021
Country most active: United States
Also known as: Betita, Elizabeth Sutherland Martínez
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1925, Dec. 12 Born, Washington, D.C.
1946 Graduated, Swarthmore College, Swarthmore, Pa.
1947-1954 Worked for the United Nations as a translator and later as a researcher and office administrator
1956-1958 Administrative assistant, Photography Department of the Museum of Modern Art, New York, N.Y.
1958-1964 Editor, Simon and Schuster, New York, N.Y.
1964 Books and art editor, The Nation. Participated in the Mississippi Summer Project
1965 Edited, Letters from Mississippi. New York: McGraw Hill
1965-1967 Member of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee and also served as administrative secretary of the New York Office
1968-1973 Founding editor of El Grito del Norte, a bilingual movement newspaper
1973 Founded the Chicano Communications Center, Albuquerque, N. Mex., and served as director until 1976
1976 Moved to California and joined the Democratic Workers Party
1982 Ran for governor of California on the Peace and Freedom Ticket Party
1997 Co-founded the Institute for MultiRacial Justice, San Francisco, Calif.
2004 Served on the advisory board for the group 2004 Racism Watch
2021, June 29 Died, San Francisco, Calif.