Film · Afro-Caribbean diaspora

Modesta

Directed by Benjamín Doniger · 1956 · 35 min

The DivEdCo’s most important attempt to depict women’s rights in the context of modernization processes in Puerto Rico. Modesta leads a group of women in Barrio Sonadora, Guaynabo, in a strike against their husbands to demand their rights in a domestic context.