1. Biography

2. References

Biography

The daughter of Feliciano Jova and María del Socorro Baró, she was born María Dámasa Jova in Ranchuelo; her father died when she was less than two years old and she moved with her mother to Cienfuegos. Jova Baró trained as a primary school teacher.^[1][3]

Jova Baró was the first Afro-Cuban woman to own a printing press; she began publishing the children's magazine Ninfas in January 1929. She also produced a children's radio program "La Hora Teatral Ninfas" and established a literary and artistic club for children. Jova Baró was also founder and editor-in-chief for the literary and critical publication Umbrales Revista Literaria Artistica from 1934 to 1937.^[1][3]

In 1925, she published a collection of poetry Arpegios intimos.^[3]

Jova Baró participated in the provincial women's organization Club Femenino and raised concerns about the marginalization of Afro-Cuban women at the 1939 Congreso Nacional Femenino in Havana.^[3]

In 1939, she joined the Conjunto Nacional Democrático party and was chosen as that party's regional candidate for the national assembly; however, the provincial electoral board disallowed her candidacy.^[2]

She died in Santa Clara at the age of 49.^[2]

The city of Santa Clara named a primary school in her honour.^[2]

References

• For Two to Play Upon One Lute
• Fort Wright
• Forty Acres and a Mule Filmworks
• Forty (album)
• Fort Yamhill
• Fort Yam Hill
• Fort Yamhill State Heritage Area
• Forty and Eight veterans organization
• Forty and eight veterans organization
• Forty Armenian Martyrs
• Forty Arpent Canal
• Fort Yates
• Forty Below Summer
• Forty Carats
• Forty Carats (1973 film)
• Forty Carats (1973 flm)
• Forty Creek
• Forty Days and Forty Nights
• Forty days of musa dagh
• Forty & Eight
• Forty-eighth Congress
• Forty-eighth United States Congress
• Forty-fifth Congress
• Forty-fifth United States Congress
• Forty-fifth U.S. Congress