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  "publishedAt": "2026-03-09T14:00:00.000Z",
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    "'Founding Feminists' Series",
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    "Black Women",
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  "textContent": "Centuries before the American Revolution, Spanish-speaking women crossed oceans and deserts to build communities whose legacies still shape the United States.\n\nAs anti-Latino sentiment coincides with the 250th anniversary of the United States, we must remember that long before the American Revolution, Spanish-speaking women inhabited territory that would become the United States.\n\nLike their English Protestant counterparts in New England, Spanish-speaking women were founding mothers of our nation. Their legacies live on through their descendants and the many other Latinas who immigrated to the U.S. over the past 250 years. Faced with the widespread detention of Spanish-speaking women, it is crucial to remember that it has long been their country too.\n\n**(This essay is part of theFEMINIST 250: Founding Feminists series, marking the 250th anniversary of America by reclaiming the revolution through the women and gender-expansive people whose ideas, labor and resistance shaped U.S. democracy.)**\n\nThe post ‘This Is Our Country Too!’: The Enduring Legacy of Spanish-Speaking Women in Early America appeared first on Ms. Magazine.",
  "title": "‘This Is Our Country Too!’: The Enduring Legacy of Spanish-Speaking Women in Early America"
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