Carmen Delgado Ruiz

Carmen trained as a teacher in Seville in the 1920s, at a time when few women of her neighbourhood finished school. She founded an evening literacy class for working women that ran for more than three decades.

This memorial is preserved by her great-grandchildren from letters, school records and the memories of former pupils. Some dates in her early life are uncertain and are presented as the family understands them.

She is remembered as strict, warm and fiercely devoted to the idea that education belongs to everyone.