Alzira Rufino

Biography

Alzira Rufino (6 July 1949 – 26 April 2023) was a Brazilian feminist and activist who was associated with the Black Movement and the Black Women's Movement. She was the founder of the Casa de Cultura da Mulher Negra (Black Women's House of Culture), the country's first black women's center. Rufino was born in Santos, São Paulo to a low-income family and worked as a child.

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