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Antonia Pantoja

Puerto Rican educator

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionMay 17, 2026
Entity authoritySource title only
Source-derived summary

Antonia Pantoja, was a Puerto Rican educator, social worker, feminist, civil rights leader and the founder of ASPIRA, the Puerto Rican Forum, Boricua College and Producir. In 1996, she was the first Puerto Rican woman to receive the American Presidential Medal of Freedom.

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“Antonia Pantoja” enters the record as puerto Rican educator. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Antonia, Pantoja and Puerto can confirm, complicate or overturn.

Editorial reviewA concise reference frame for defining the subject, testing terminology and identifying the institution closest to the evidence. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1996—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Antonia, Pantoja and Puerto.
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“Antonia Pantoja” is worth following because a concise public description often conceals a longer documentary argument. Here, Antonia, Pantoja and Puerto provides the most credible route into that argument.

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Named sources, stable identifiers and responsible institutions provide the strongest route from overview to verifiable evidence. The source revision retrieved here is dated May 17, 2026. The first chronological checks are 1996.

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This entry incorporates text from “Antonia Pantoja” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.