Women of history are rarely memorialized in public spaces in the U.S. Even fewer Latinas and other women of color are honored by public monuments.
Civil rights activist Dolores Huerta visits the graves of Cesar and Helen Chavez at the César E. Chávez National Monument in Keene, California, on January 31, 2017. Photo: Frederic J. Brown/AFP via Getty Image
Few statues honoring Latina civil rights and other influential Hispanic women have been erected in the U.S. or Latin America.Women of history are rarely memorialized in public spaces, and even fewer Latinas and other women of color are honored by public monuments, data shows. For Women's History Month, Axios Latino went searching.An Axios review of public monuments and historic sites in the U.S.
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