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Marge Villa, Latinas Talk Latinas

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This resource is designed to accompany the Smithsonian's National Museum of American History's and the Smithsonian's Latino Center's video Latinas Talk Latinas, Marge Villa: Breaking Gender Barriers. After watching the video, which is located in the second tile of this collection, please return to this page to learn more about the assets we have in our digital collection as well as additional resources that will help you further explore the topics and themes presented in the video.

Margaret (Marge) Villa was among the very few women professional baseball players and a record-setting catcher. Villa broke gender barriers in the early '40s at age 16 while playing in East Los Angeles, California.

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