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Sylvia del Villard. February 28, February 28, Del Villard received her primary and secondary education in the Santurce section of San Juan, Puerto Rico where she was born, and upon graduation, the Puerto Rican government awarded her with a collegiate scholarship. However, after enduring so much anti-black discrimination and segregation prevalent in the southern US during that time, she returned to Puerto Rico and enrolled in the University of Puerto Rico where she earned her degree.

In New York where she founded a new theater group which she named Sininke making many presentations in the Museum of Natural History. In , she became the first and only director of the office of the Afro-Puerto Rican affairs of the Puerto Rican Institute of Culture. In in California, Del Villard was diagnosed with lung cancer and returned to the island of Puerto Rico where she passed away on February 28, in San Juan.

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