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Nina Otero-Warren – Latina champion of women's voting rights and education in New Mexico – will soon grace US quarters

  • Written by Anna María Nogar, Professor of Hispanic Southwest Studies, Department of Spanish and Portuguese, University of New Mexico
Nina Otero-Warren – Latina champion of women's voting rights and education in New Mexico – will soon grace US quartersA new U.S. quarter shows Nina Otero-Warren, a leader in New Mexico’s suffrage movement and the first female superintendent of Santa Fe public schools.U.S. Mint

Adelina “Nina” Otero-Warren was an activist who fought for women’s voting rights during the 20th century. She was the first Latina to run for Congress and the first...

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