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 <div id="fb-root"></div><p><img class="alignnone size-full wp-image-5778" src="https://www.historyhustle.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/Ana-Roque-de-Duprey-leader.jpg" alt="Ana Roque de Duprey leader" width="1000" height="846"></p><p>The road to women&rsquo;s voting rights in Puerto Rico was a bumpy one. ; But one fearless woman in particular led the fight. ; Nothing seemed to daunt Ana Roque de Duprey, even the loss of her mother Ana Cristina when she was just four-years-old.</p><blockquote>
<h2>She became a teacher&rsquo;s assistant at age 11 and opened her very own school in her house when she turned 13.</h2>
</blockquote><h2>Ana Roque de Duprey&rsquo;s incredible childhood</h2><p><img class="alignnone size-full wp-image-5782" src="https://www.historyhustle.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/Ana-Duprey.jpg" alt="" width="500" height="626"><br>
Fortunately, the young girl was instilled with a love of books. ; And that turned out to be the catalyst she needed to become a <a href="https://www.historyhustle.com/kubaba-bartender-became-worlds-first-woman-ruler/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">leader</a> of women&rsquo;s rights in her native land, <a href="https://www.smithsonianmag.com/travel/puerto-rico-history-and-heritage-13990189/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Puerto Rico</a>. Ana&rsquo;s father, grandmother, and aunt were all educators. And buoyed along by their support she excelled in school. ; She was enrolled in school at the age of seven in 1860. By then she was proficient in math, grammar, and geography. ; She did so well, in fact, she graduated just two years later.</p><p>The next step was a few years of home-schooling and she became a teacher&rsquo;s assistant at age 11. Armed with such knowledge and plenty of self-determination she opened her very own school in her house when she turned 13. ; Next, she began a successful writing career, authoring a book on geography for her young students. ; Puerto Rico&rsquo;s Department of Education even adopted this book. ;Ana applied for a teacher&rsquo;s license and easily pass the examinations.</p><h2>Ana Roque de Duprey grows up</h2><p>Then she met Luis Duprey, a wealthy and politically motivated landowner, and married him at age 19 in 1872. Sadly, their life was marred by tragedy. ; Only three of the couple&rsquo;s five children &mdash; Luis Enrique, Boringuen, and America &mdash; survived</p><p>The family moved to San Juan, Puerto Rico&rsquo;s capital city in 1878. Ana became the first woman to be permitted to enter the Puerto Rican Athenaeum. She also was the first woman to become a member of the country&rsquo;s Public Library. Tragically, Luis died in 1880, and she was left with small children to care for.</p><p>Despite this sad setback, Ana accepted a teaching position in Arecibo. She also studied philosophy and science at the Provincial Institute and earned her bachelor&rsquo;s degree.</p><h3><strong>Teacher and entrepreneur</strong></h3><p><img class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-5780" src="https://www.historyhustle.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/Ana-Duprey-leader.jpg" alt="" width="1000" height="1000"></p><p>Ana became notable for a great many things in her long career. She founded <em>La Mujer,</em> the country&rsquo;s first &ldquo;women&rsquo;s only&rdquo; magazine. ; She also became the director of the Normal School of San Juan. Ana wrote many articles for the country&rsquo;s newspapers <em>El Buscapie</em>, <em>El Imparcial</em>, and <em>El Mundo.</em> ; Ana founded many more publications, both for women and the general public. These include the ; <em>La Evolucion</em> (1902), <em>La Mujer del Sigio XX</em> (1907), <em>Album Puertorrigue</em><em>ñ;o,</em> and <em>Heraldo de la Mujer</em> (1920).</p>
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<p>She also founded a high school for girls and the college of Mayaguez, which ultimately became the Mayaguez campus of the <a href="https://www.upr.edu/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">University of Puerto Rico</a>. Working in conjunction with the Department of Education, she kept teaching students in her own home. Dedicated to helping potential young teachers prepare for their examinations.</p><p>She then helped found the Puerto Rican Feminist League in 1917. This is the only feminist organization dedicated to the rights of Puerto Rican women at the time. ; And by 1921 women&rsquo;s voting rights became the organization&rsquo;s primary focus. But over time, political views within the organization changed and Ana and her followers founded the Association of Women Suffragists in 1924.</p><p>This was the beginning of a long fight as the women advocated for suffrage without restrictions. ; Finally, women were given the right to vote in 1934.</p><p>This hugely influential woman passed away in 1933, in Rio Piedras and a memorial was set up to honor her life. She has since been posthumously named an honoree of the National Women&rsquo;s History Alliance in 2020.</p>
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</p><h5>Sources:</h5><h5><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ana_Roque_de_Duprey" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ana_Roque_de_Duprey</a><br>
<a href="https://sites.google.com/site/dejaronsuhuella/biografias/ana-roque-de-duprey" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">https://sites.google.com/site/dejaronsuhuella/biografias/ana-roque-de-duprey</a><br>
<a href="https://books.google.com/books/about/Technical_Innovation_in_American_History.html?id=aWGHDwAAQBAJ" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">https://books.google.com/books/about/Technical_Innovation_in_American_History.html?id=aWGHDwAAQBAJ</a><br>
<a href="https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/women-in-stem" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/women-in-stem</a><br>
<a href="https://www.hercampus.com/school/inter-sg/puerto-rican-heroines" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">https://www.hercampus.com/school/inter-sg/puerto-rican-heroines</a><br>
<a href="https://www.facebook.com/122618678228/posts/meet-ana-roque-de-dupreyana-was-born-in-aguadilla-puerto-rico-she-lived-among-bo/10157477774863229/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">https://www.facebook.com/122618678228/posts/meet-ana-roque-de-dupreyana-was-born-in-aguadilla-puerto-rico-she-lived-among-bo/10157477774863229/</a><br>
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