Bonilla- Women in the Chicano movement Interviewer: What do you think was women's biggest role in the movement? Bonilla: The grassroots. Doing all the dirty work. Doing the hard grunt work. Grunt work as far as the writing. We didn't have email. We did the passing out the flyers. We did the phone callings. We raised the money. We, me, myself, used to make big pots of menudo and sell them from our homes. We lived in a one bedroom, three room house, little house that we rented. and out of the one little house, we used to sell menudo every Sunday for Navarrio?. after church, they'd bring their little plastic ware, their little bowls for our menudo. but i was taught by a man to make the menudo. And from a Vietnam veteran. he taught me how to make the menudo and he would come to help me. So i think we were the support system. without our work, i don't think Ramsey Muniz could have gotten to where he was. From my little kitchen in that little three room home, we fed Ramsey Muniz and his whole party. they came in to Fort Worth to make presentations.I fed them. like i said, home hosting, a lot of that went on at la raz unida?. those are the roles you don't hear about. Like Martha Cortera putting us up, feeding us. the home, the food. we would take, just like students and also the movement, most of us were college students, most of us just graduated. and food is a big important element, and i think the women, that was one of our big departments of support.