Elizabeth Martínez

bilingual 500 years of Chicano History in Pictures,^[1] which later formed the basis for the educational video ¡Viva la Causa! 500 Years of Chicano History.^[2] Her work was hailed by Angela Y. Davis

The Nation Magazine as Books and Arts Editor. Her daughter, Tessa, is an actress and co-founder of San Francisco's Latina Theater Lab.^[1] She died at the age of 95 in San Francisco due to vascular dementia.^[6]

Civil Rights Movement with the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) in the South and as a coordinator of its New York office. Martínez edited the photo history book, The Movement, that raised funds for the SNCC.^[5] She was one of only two Latina women who worked for the SNCC.^[10] In 1968, she moved to New Mexico to start a newspaper to support the Alianza Federal de Mercedes.^[7] Along with lawyer Beverly Axelrod, Martínez thus founded the bilingual movement newspaper El Grito del Norte, which she worked on for five years.^[7] In 1973, she co-founded and directed the Chicano Communications Center, a barrio-based organizing and education project.^[1][11] Martínez edited the bilingual pictorial volume 500 Years of Chicano History that influenced her video Viva La Causa! that has been shown at film festivals and in classrooms across the country.^[5]

National Association for Chicana and Chicano Studies.^[11] In 1997, she and Phil Hutchings co-founded the Institute for MultiRacial Justice,^[7] which "aims to strengthen the struggle against white supremacy by serving as a resource center to help build alliances among peoples of color and combat divisions."^[13] In 2004, she served on the advisory board for the group 2004 Racism Watch.^[14] She was also an adviser to the Catalyst Project, an anti-racist political education organization that focuses on white communities.^[15] Martínez died on June 29, 2021, at the age of 95.^[16]