Humberto corona biography

Bert Corona (born 1918), a union organizer who worked to provide Mexican Americans with better wages and living conditions.

Bert Corona was born into a revolutionary family.

At the age of thirteen, his father, Noe, began to fight in the Mexican Revolution to overthrow the long and corrupt rule of Porfirio Díaz. He joined the forces of Pancho Villa, one of the most powerful rebels.

About 1911 Noe Corona was assigned to seal off Chihuahua City, which threatened to send out federal troops against Villa's forces.

There he met Margarita Escápite Salayandía. Margarita and her mother, Ynez Salayandía y Escápite, were rebels in their own right.

Humberto corona biography

Both had decided to ignore the general feeling in Mexico that women should stay home, bear children, and restrict themselves to tending the household. Ynez became one of the few female doctors in Mexico, and Margarita became director of a teacher's college.

Also, they were Protestants in a mostly Catholic country.

After fighting