Dedé Mirabal
Dedé Mirabal (1925‒2014) was the surviving sister of Patria, Minerva, and María Teresa Mirabal and the founder of the Mirabal Sisters Foundation and the Mirabal Sisters House Museum.
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Alive in Their Garden
The True Story of the Mirabal Sisters and Their Fight for Freedom
By Dedé Mirabal; Edited and translated by Ana E. Martínez and Heather Hennes; Introduction by Julia Alvarez
University of Florida Press
In this memoir, Dedé Mirabal offers an intimate account of the lives and legacy of her sisters Patria, Minerva, and María Teresa Mirabal, Dominican revolutionaries who were assassinated in 1960 by order of dictator Rafael Trujillo. This is the first English translation of Dedé’s story, introducing new readers to a tragedy and international outcry that heralded the fall of the Trujillo dictatorship.
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