Abstract
On Thursday, April 18 my students and I coordinated an activity in which we celebrated the National Bilingual/Multilingual Learner Advocacy Month. In this activity, one of our adjuncts professors presented information about the struggle that a Puerto Rican woman, Evelina López Antonetty had in providing access to bilingual education to a monolingual-Spanish community in the South Bronx . The South Bronx is still considered one of the most impoverished boroughs in NYC and it is also where the college I am working at (Eugenio Maria de Hostos CC) is located. As part of the activity, I wrote a poem about Evelina López Antonetty and the poem was translated by my students into three (3) different languages.
Highlights
Known as the “mother of the Bronx,” community organizer and education leader Evelina López Antonetty was a driving force behind the efforts that transformed the Bronx from a symbol of urban blight in the 1960s and 1970s into a livable place in the 1980s
Born in Puerto Rico and raised in the United States, López Antonetty, the woman everyone called ‘Titi’, or ‘Auntie,’ found herself frustrated by the inferior services the public school system provided to poor Puerto Rican and African American children
In the 1970s United Bronx Parents (UBP) became a model of urban grassroots organizing
Summary
Known as the “mother of the Bronx,” community organizer and education leader Evelina López Antonetty was a driving force behind the efforts that transformed the Bronx from a symbol of urban blight in the 1960s and 1970s into a livable place in the 1980s. Born in Puerto Rico and raised in the United States, López Antonetty, the woman everyone called ‘Titi’, or ‘Auntie,’ found herself frustrated by the inferior services the public school system provided to poor Puerto Rican and African American children. In 1965 she founded United Bronx Parents (UBP), an organization that fostered quality education and community control of schools. In the 1970s UBP became a model of urban grassroots organizing. Expanding to include a bilingual care center, an adult education program, and a youth leadership center, it empowered residents to fight against the social ills caused by failed urban and economic policies
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