Julia de Burgos |Julia de Burgos| Julia de Burgos |Born||Julia
Constancia Burgos García February 17, 1914 Carolina, Puerto Rico
|Died||July 6, 1953 Spanish Harlem, Manhattan , New York City,
New York, United States |Literary movement||Puerto Rican
Independence| |Notable work(s)||El Rio Grande de Loiza;| |Part
of a series on the| Flag of the Puerto Rican Nationalist Party
Julia de Burgos (February 17, 1914 – July 6, 1953) is considered
by many as the greatest poet born in Puerto Rico, and, along
with Gabriela Mistral, one of the greatest female poets of Latin
America. As an advocate of Puerto Rican independence, she served
as Secretary General of the Daughters of Freedom, the women's
branch of the Puerto Rican Nationalist Party. She was also an
ardent civil rights activist for women and African/Afro-
Caribbean writers. Early years  Julia de Burgos (birth name:
Julia Constanza de Burgos García[note 1]) was born to Francisco
Burgos Hans (a farmer) and Paula García de Burgos. Although her
father worked for the Nat