Portal:Argentina/Selected article/Month 12, 2008

Alicia Moreau de Justo

Alicia Moreau de Justo (born October 11, 1885 in London – died May 12, 1986) was an Argentine physician, politician, pacifist and human rights activist. Born to French parents in London, United Kingdom, the Moreau family moved to Argentina while Alicia was still a child. There she studied both for school teacher first, and then became the fourth woman to graduate as a physicist. She started her political activity in 1906 during the International Congress of Free Thought. She acquired connections in the Socialist Party, and worked as a collaborator at the International Socialist Magazine...