These friendships led to her organize a political discussion group for women in the sanatorium, Hermanas de la Revolución Mexicana.
[3] Flores also organized underground viewings of the 1954 pro-union film Salt of the Earth, which was blacklisted during the McCarthy era.
[3] Flores felt that the Chicano Movement of the 1960s ad 70s did not adequately address Chicana women's rights and needs, so she and other women branched out from the movement and created the Comisión Femenil Mexicana Nacional, the first national Chicana feminist organization in the United States.
Today Flores is remembered as a Chicana feminist who sought to liberate Mexican American women.
[5] Flores was an editor of Regeneración, a feminist magazine modeled after the Mexican anarchist newspaper of the same name which had been published by the Magnón brothers in the early 1900s.
[6] In it she wrote, "Chicanas can no longer remain in a subservient role or as auxiliary forces in the Chicano movement.