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Nina Otero-Warren (Birthday)
Join us in commemorating the birthday of Nina Otero-Warren. Nina was a civil rights leader, a suffragist, and an advocate for bilingual education.
In 1917, Otero-Warren was selected by Alice Paul to head the New Mexico chapter of the Congressional Union (precursor to the National Woman’s Party). She insisted that suffrage literature be published in both English and Spanish, in order to reach the widest audience.
She was Superintendent of Public Schools in Santa Fe County from 1918 to 1929, working to improve the conditions in rural Hispano and Native American communities. Otero-Warren argued that both Spanish and English be allowed in schools, despite the federal mandate of English-only. Despite losing her political campaign to run for a seat in the US House of Representatives, she remained politically and socially active, and served as the Chairman of New Mexico’s Board of Health; an executive board member of the American Red Cross; and director of an adult literacy program in New Mexico for the Works Projects Administration.
Learn more: https://www.nps.gov/people/nina-oter-warren.htm
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