Francisco Esteban Gómez's grandfather Germán and great-grandmother Gregoria were born in slavery.
[1][2] Gómez Garriga taught elementary school for several years; she was also trained as an accountant and active in rural labor organizations.
[5] She ran unsuccessfully for the Senate of Puerto Rico in 1956 and resigned her positions in the Popular Democratic party after that.
[7] There is a public upper elementary school named for María Libertad Gómez Garriga in Utuado.
[8] There is also a middle school named for Gómez, in Toa Baja, Puerto Rico.