This paper sheds light on Spain’s first official hate crime perpetrated against a migrant worker, showing the interconnections between gender, ethnicity and class. Through the stories and experiences of the Dominican community of Madrid, the article presents the challenges that women meet during their migratory experience and during their inclusion process in the destination country. This is illustrated through a case that contribute to understanding the specific role and responsibility that the education and pedagogy must assume to respond to the serious educational emergencies that the different forms of racism and discrimination cause within societies. The paper also focuses on the importance of the study of racisms in history to understand today’s challenges that, if they are not approached with a critical, radical and rigorous perspective, can become an obstacle to the development of civil, democratic and respectful communities. Exactly thirty years have passed since the tragic death of Lucrecia Perez Matos but the educational issues contained in her history still question us closely.