1936 Luz applies to the Secretariat of Education to be a rural school teacher but is rejected.
1940 Milpa Alta hosts the First Aztec Congress, which mainly determines what written Nahuatl should look like.
1942 Luz narrates stories that Anita Brenner edits and Jean Charlot illustrates, The Boy Who Could Do Anything & Other Mexican Folk Tales . Luz does not receive her promised one third of the profits of this book. 1950 Luz writes several essays in Nahuatl, which are published in Robert Barlow’s Nahuatl-language newspaper, Mexihcatl Itonalama .
1956 Fernando Horcasitas and Luz teach students Nahuatl at the College of Mexico City.
1957 Luz relates stories to Anita Brenner that become the book, Juan el tonto y los Banditos ( Dumb Juan and the Bandits ), illustrated by Jean Charlot. 1961 The national daily newspaper Excélsior publishes an article about Doña Luz’s life, and a television program Working Women interviews Luz. 1963 Horcasitas and Luz move to the Institute of Historical Research at the National University, where she recounts in Nahuatl the stories of Milpa Alta before and during the Revolution to their students.
1965 Luz Jiménez (Julia Jiménez) is hit by a car in Mexico City and dies on her 68 th birthday, January 28th.
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