She was a suffragist and educator. She also risked her life driving through the
She was a suffragist and educator. She also risked her life driving through the war torn cities of Europe as an ambulance driver during World War I. In 1902, she was the youngest instructor on staff at the University of California. When World War I broke out, she left her teaching job to aid the war effort, going to France to become an ambulance driver, where she received citations for bravery for carrying wounded soldiers to safety. Some sources say she even learned how to fly a plane. In an article she wrote for the Los Angeles Herald, “making the bold claim that men and women deserve equal rights, that should not be distinguished by gender, under the foundations of democracy,” according to the Women’s Museum of California. There is very little information about her online. Her name is Maria Guadalupe Evangelina de Lopez, and she “played an important role in the campaign to enfranchise California’s women by translating suffrage materials into Spanish in order to reach Hispanic w...