Sérgia Ribeiro da Silva, better known as Dadá (April 25, 1915,

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. There were two films made regarding Ribeiro, ''Corisco & Dadá'' and ''A Mulher no Cangaço'' (1976). Dadá went on to live in Salvador, fighting to see the legislation that assures respect to the dead fulfilled - and the tetric exhibition of the Anthropological Museum Estácio de Lima, located in the building of the Legal Medical Institute Nina Rodrigues put an end. It was only on February 6, 1969, under the Luiz Viana Filho administration, that the remains of the cangaceiros could be definitively inhumed - the museum having made molds to exhibit them instead.

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* Luciana Savaget, ''Dadá, a mulher de Corisco'' Ed. DCL, (in Portuguese) * Roberta Bencini (February 2000). "A última peleja do Diabo Loiro" (in Portuguese) * Antônio Amaury Corrêa de Araújo, ''Gente de Lampião: Dadá e Corisco'' 1915 births 1994 deaths Brazilian feminists Brazilian rebels Women in war 1900–1945 Women in war in Brazil 20th-century Brazilian women {{brazil-bio-stub