Seminar Room, Third Floor, Radcliffe Humanities Building
Screening of the documentary film ‘Maestra’ by Catherine Murphy.
Cuba, 1961: 250,000 volunteers taught 700,000 people to read and write in one year. 100,000 of the teachers were under 18 years old. Over half were women, many were Afro-Cuban. Maestra explores this story through the personal testimonies of the women who went out to teach literacy in rural communities across the island - and found themselves deeply transformed in the process.
