Elizabeth Martinez, writer and activist for Chicano and feminist causes, dies at 95

Elizabeth Martínez, a writer and editor who took part in the civil rights movement and was best known during a long life of activism as an outspoken advocate for Mexican American and feminist causes, died June 29 at a hospital in San Francisco. She was 95.

The cause was vascular dementia, said a friend, Tony Platt, a scholar affiliated with the University of California at Berkeley.