1920 - 2002
Petra Allende American Activist
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Details
| Birthday |
29th June, 1920
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| Birthplace |
Old San Juan, Puerto Rico
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| Died |
1st April, 2002
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| Place of Death |
New York City, New York
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| Zodiac Sign |
Cancer
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| Nationality |
American
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| Occupation Text |
domestic worker, factory worker, activist
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| Occupation |
Activist
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| Year(s) Active |
1937–2001
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Petra Allende (June 29, 1920 – April 1, 2002) was a Puerto-Rican factory worker and clerk, who worked as an activist in New York City's El Barrio neighborhood. In the 1960s, she began working to overturn laws which required literacy to vote. In the 1970s, she campaigned for day care facilities for working mothers and adequate supports for the poor and in the 1980s turned her attention to elder rights. Affectionately known as "La Alcaldesa del Barrio" (The Mayor of the Barrio [Spanish Harlem]), the street on which she lived in Manhattan, East 111th Street, was renamed Petra Allende Way in 2012.
