Elizabeth Teixeira
Biography
Elizabeth Altino Teixeira, a Brazilian rural worker and activist, has been a driving force for change in her community. Confronting landowners and campaigning in the Peasant Leagues of Paraíba, she took on leadership after her husband's murder in 1962. Her courageous efforts continued until 1981, when she was discovered by filmmaker Eduardo Coutinho, who resumed filming his documentary "Twenty Years Later."