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- 1 2 Dora Luz García Santos (2009) Rosas de Acero: Catálogo de Mujeres Camagüeyanas Anales de Investigación, issue 5, pp87–89
- ↑ K. Lynn Stoner, Luis Hipolito Serrano Perez, Luís Hipólito Serrano Pérez (2000) Cuban and Cuban-American Women: An Annotated Bibliography p48
- ↑ Velia Cecilia Bobes (2007) La nación inconclusa: (Re) constituciones de la ciudadanía y la identidad nacional en Cuba p236
- ↑ "Women Representatives", The Tampa Tribune, 6 April 1936, p2
- ↑ Julio César González Pagés (2003) En busca de un espacio--historia de mujeres en Cuba, p127