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Minerva Mirabal Reyes
Dominican lawyer and political activist
María Minerva Mirabal Reyes (March 12, 1926 - November 25, 1960), or Minerva, was a Dominican political activist and revolutionary.
She was the third of the Mirabal sisters,[1] Minerva and her sisters began to speak out against the oppressive dictatorship of Generalissimo Rafael Leonidas Trujillo and conducted clandestine activities against his regime.
Like her older sisters, Minerva also received an education at El Colegio Inmaculada Concepción, at the urging of her mother, Mercedes Mirabal.[2]
Many resistance groups were forming within the Dominican Republic during the 1950s.
Minerva and her husband, Manolo Tavárez Justo, were pioneers in the resistance movement against Trujillo. Together, they formed the 14th of June Revolutionary Movement.[3]
Education and early life
Minerva Mirabal was born in the town of Salcedo, Dominican Republic to Mercedes Reyes Camilo and Enrique Mirab