Women of the resistance
Luísa Tito de Morais
b. 1942
At the age of five she visited her father, a prisoner in the Aljube. She joined the PCP at 16, took part in the struggles in the secondary schools, lived in exile in Paris, Prague and Algeria, returned clandestinely in 1970 and later joined the leadership of the Democratic Electoral Commission.
- Born
- 1942
Biography
She was born in 1942 into a family of opposition activists. At the age of five she would visit her father, Manuel Alfredo Tito de Morais, in the Aljube prison; he was a leader of the Movement of Democratic Unity (MUD) and, later, one of the founders of the Socialist Party. Her grandfather, Admiral Tito de Morais, had taken part in the revolution of 5 October 1910.1
In 1958 she followed the campaigns of Arlindo Vicente and Humberto Delgado and, at 16, joined the PCP. She took part in the struggles of the secondary-school (liceu) students and in setting up a pro-association of secondary-school students. From 1961 she lived in exile — in Paris, Prague and Algeria — always with her partner, Pedro Ramos de Almeida.1
She returned to Portugal clandestinely in 1970. In 1972 she left the underground and moved into legal political activity, above all in the Democratic Electoral Commission (CDE), of whose leadership she was a member.1
People
They crossed paths with her
Agostinho Neto
1922–1979 · doctor (Lisbon Faculty of Medicine)
Álvaro Cunhal
1913–2005 · general secretary of the Portuguese Communist Party
Domingos Abrantes
b. 1936 · leader of the MUD Juvenil
Emídio Santana
1906–1988 · metalworker
Eurico Figueiredo
1939–2025 · leader of the medical students in the 1962 academic crisis
José Dias Coelho
1923–1961 · sculptor
Notes on the sources1
- The place and day of birth: the Aljube Museum gives only the year, 1942.
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Sources1
- 1Luísa Tito de Morais. Museu do Aljube Resistência e Liberdade — consulted on 2 October 2026