Hermila Galindo

Hermila Galindo Acosta (also known as Hermila Galindo de Topete) (2June 188618August 1954) was a feminist and writer. She was from Mexico. She supported many feminist views. She wanted to teach sex education in schools, women's suffrage, and divorce. She was one of the first feminists that said that Catholicism in Mexico was hurting feminism. She was the first woman to run for elected office in Mexico.
Early life
Hermila Galindo Acosta was born in Lerdo, Durango on 2 June, 1886. Her parents were Rosario Galindo and Hermila Acosta. She went to school in Villa Lerdo. She then went to an industrial school in Chihuahua. She learnt accounting, shorthand, telegraphy, typing, English and Spanish. She went back home when she was 13. She gave private lessons in shorthand and typing to children. In 1911, she moved to Mexico City.

 Legacy 
On 2 June 2018, Galindo was celebrated by a Google Doodle in Mexico. It was on her 132nd birthday.

On 20 November 2020, Galindo was added to the new Mexican 1000 peso note.

 Selected works 

 La Mujer moderna (1915–1919) (in Spanish)
 Estudio de la Srita. Hermila Galindo : con motivo de los temas que han de absolverse en el Segundo Congreso Feminista de Yucatán, Noviembre 20 de 1916 (1916) (in Spanish)
 La doctrina Carranza y el acercamiento indo-latino (1919) (in Spanish)
 Un presidenciable: el general Don Pablo Gonzalez (1919) (in Spanish)
 "Mi grano de arena en esa hermosa labor." in La doctrina Carranza y el acercamiento indolatino, pp. 159–67. Mexico 1919.

 Further reading 

 Morton, Ward M. Woman Suffrage in Mexico. Gainesville: University of Florida Press 1962,
 Orellana Trinidad, Laura. Hermila Galindo: Una mujer moderna. Mexico City: Consejo Nacional para la Cultura de Artes 2001.
 Valles Ruiz, Rosa Maria. Sol de libertad: Hermila Galindo: Feminista, constitutionalista y primera censora legislativa en México. Lerdo, Mexico: Instituto del Estado de Durango 2010.

 References 

Category:1886 births
Category:1954 deaths
Category:Feminist writers
Category:Mexican writers
Category:Mexican politicians
Category:People from Durango