| 1. Luisa was born into a wealthy family in Guatemala but faced familial opposition regarding her activism. |
| 2. She adopted the name Luisa Moreno to honor a Mexican labour organizer. |
| 3. Experiencing severe health issues at a young age, her father's promises shaped her early life. |
| 4. Luisa confronted racism during her education in California, igniting her later activism. |
| 5. She established La Sociedad Gabriela Mistral to advocate for women's rights to education and the vote. |
| 6. Her poetry, including 'El Vendedor de Cocuyos', reflects her experiences and activism. |
| 7. Despite significant challenges, including a deportation threat, she remained committed to her causes. |
| 8. Her legacy continues to inspire movements for worker rights and social justice, recognized even in modern remembrances. |
| 9. She became the first Latina elected to a high-ranking national position in a U.S. trade union as vice president of UCAPAWA in 1941. |
| 10. She founded the Congress of Spanish-Speaking Peoples in 1939, the first national Latino civil rights assembly in the U.S. |
| 11. She was deported from the U.S. in 1950 amid anti-communist sentiment during the McCarthy era. |
| 12. In 1935, the American Federation of Labor hired her as a full-time organizer for Latina and African American women cigar rollers in Florida. |
| 13. She organized the pecan shellers' strike in San Antonio, Texas, in 1938, supporting 6,000–8,000 primarily Mexican workers protesting pay cuts and poor conditions. |
| 14. She established defense committees for young Chicano men following the Sleepy Lagoon murder trial and the Zoot Suit Riots in the early 1940s. |
| 15. She organized cannery workers in California at companies like California Sanitary Canning Company and Val Vita, leading to wage improvements, better conditions, and on-site daycare. |
| 16. After deportation, she returned to Guatemala, organized educational campaigns for Indigenous women under President Jacobo Árbenz, then fled to Mexico after the 1954 coup, and later to Cuba. |
