Biddy Mason and Dolores Huerta are considered trailblazers, and Wednesday the Women's March Foundation announced an effort to rename LA streets in their honor, along with re-dubbing other roadways nationwide to honor women who paved the way for equality and recognition. According to the Women's March Foundation, there are 240 million streets in the United States, and 5,000 of them are named after George Washington. More than three-quarters of the streets are named after men. The initiative aims to make visible the names of women in art, labor and social justice organizers.
Biddy Mason and Dolores Huerta are considered trailblazers, and Wednesday the Women's March Foundation announced an effort to rename LA streets in their honor, along with re-dubbing other roadways nationwide to honor women who paved the way for equality and recognition.
The Women's March Foundation is campaigning for streets across the country to be named after Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Gloria Steinem and Maya Angelou, among others. The effort will look to rename Los Angeles-area streets for Mason and Huerta. Huerta is a labor leader and civil rights activist, who, with Cesar Chavez, was the co-founder of the National Farmworkers Association, which later became the United Farm Workers.
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