Question

What role did Adelina Otero-Warren play in women's suffrage?
a.
She tried to reach more Hispanic women.
b.
She became head of the state advisory group.
c.
She believed in the power of education and women being politically active.
d.
She accomplished all of the above.

Answer 1

D) She accomplished all of the above.

Adelina Otero-Warran's role was to advocate for the 19th Amendment, the right for women to vote, in New Mexico as leader of the suffrage movement in that state (New Mexico became a state in 1912). She worked to encourage Hispanic participation in the suffrage movement and she ran for many political offices at the local, as well as the national, level. New Mexico ratified the 19th-Amendment in 1920.