Chicana/o studies professor Maylei Blackwel has written that the student's newspaper Hijas de Cuauhtémoc was a vital part of the uprising Chicana movement.

[2] Anna Nieto-Gómez, co-founder of the Hijas de Cuauhtemoc newspaper, found her inspiration from a book written by Fredrick Turner that highlighted a Mexican Revolutionary group named the same.

While working as a counselor and instructor at California State University Long Beach, she mentored and organized Chicana undergraduates.

These concepts were presented through an "innovative mixed-genre format that was equal parts journalism, poetry, photography, art, social critique, recovered women history, and political manifesto".

[4]: 66 To print the first issue, the newspaper received financial support from a Norwalk Mutualista society, a tradition of Mexican migrant communities.

[1]: 70 Overall the paper encouraged Chicanas to complete their education by providing them with a support group, an organizational tool, and a forum for addressing their concerns as women.

[8] Anna Nieto Gomez thought that the importance of the paper was to organize in order to improve the status of the women within the large aspect of the movement.

[6] A month later, in April the second issues were intended to circulate thoughts and ideas produced at the Los Angeles Chicana Educational Conference.

MEChA stands for Movimiento Estudiantil Chicano de Aztlan, a student organization at California State University-Long Beach.

"[6] In spring 1973, original members of the Hijas de Cuauhtémoc staff formed a core founding group for Encuentro Femenil, including Anna Nieto-Gómez, Cindy Honesto, Marta López, Corinne Sánchez, and Adelaida R. Del Castillo.