Petra Allende
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 voter suppression laws which required literacy. 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.
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| Date of birth | 29 June 1920
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| Place of birth | Old San Juan, Puerto Rico
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| Date of death | 1 April 2002
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| Age | 81 (age at death)
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| Place of death | New York City, New York
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