Maria Lacerda de Moura

Maria Lacerda de Moura was a Brazilian teacher, writer and anarcha-feminist. The daughter of spiritist and anti-clerical parents, she grew up in the city of Barbacena, in the interior of Minas Gerais, where she graduated as a teacher at the Escola Normal Municipal de Barbacena and participated in official efforts to tackle social inequality through national literacy campaigns and educational reforms.

16 May 1887

Born on the same birth day (16 May): Adrienne Rich • Aleksandr Laktionov (painter) • Ashley Wagner • Barbara Bachmann • Boyd Tinsley • Georg Bednorz • Janet Jackson • Judy Finnigan • Luigi Villoresi • Peter Underwood (parapsychologist) • Robert Fripp • Woody Herman

Born in the same month (May 1887): A. W. Sandberg • Alexander Archipenko • Andrew Dasburg • C. R. M. F. Cruttwell • Eddie Collins • Emil Reesen • Frank Woolley • Ion Jalea • Lorna Hodgkinson • Marika Kotopouli • Mick Mannock • Nikolai Vekšin • Saint-John Perse • Thoralf Skolem