Mirabal Center: United to Building a Better Future
The official website of The Mirabal Sisters Cultural and Community Center, a non-profit organization founded in Harlem in 1991 by Dominican immigrants, mainly serving the residents of West Harlem.
The Era of Trujillo
http://countrystudies.us/dominican-republic/11.htm
A history of Trujillo's reign in the Dominican Republic, taken from Richard A. Haggerty's Dominican Republic: A Country Study (Washington: GPO for the Library of Congress, 1989).
The Cuban Revolution (1952-1958)
http://www.latinamericanstudies.org/cuban-revolution.htm
In In the Time of the Butterflies, the news of the successful revolution in Cuba gives hope to the Mirabal sisters and their underground revolutionary movement. This page provides historical documents that explain the history of the revolution in Cuba.
In the Time of the Butterflies
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0263467/
Information on the 2001 film version of the book, starring Salma Hayek as Minerva Mirabal.
Julia Alvarez
The official website of author Julia Alvarez.
