TIMELINE
1897 Julia Jiménez González (Luz Jiménez) is born in Milpa Alta, a small farming community, on January 28.
1904–1908 Luz is a student at Elementary School #4 and Concepción Arenal Upper Primary School.
1911–1914 During the Mexican Revolution, Milpa Alta is at the center of the fight between the Zapatistas, led by revolutionary fighter Emiliano Zapata, and federal soldiers. Luz’s school is burned down in 1914. 1916 Venustiano Carranza’s men kill Luz’s father and uncles and most of the men and boys in the massacre in Milpa Alta. Luz and her family leave Milpa Alta to live in Santa Anita on the edge of Mexico City. 1918–1919 Luz wins first place for the “Loveliest Flower of the Field,” an indigenous beauty contest in Santa Anita. She takes the name Luciana for the contest and later goes by Luz.
1920–1965 Luz models for many famous artists working in Mexico throughout her lifetime.
1924–1925 Luz takes Anita Brenner (writer), Jean Charlot (artist), and others to the Sanctuary of Chalma.
1929–1965 Benjamin Lee Whorf (a North American linguist), Mariano Silva y Aceves, Robert Barlow, Stanley Newman, Fernando Horcasitas, and others studying Nahuatl use Luz’s talents as a Nahuatl speaker. Throughout her life, Luz continues to model and also sells clothing and other articles that she and other women create to sustain herself and her family.
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