Juanita Serrano, advocate for single mothers – A Life Story – from Ohio

Juanita Serrano and other single moms staged demonstrations at government buildings in Cleveland, Columbus and Washington, D.C., in the late 1960s and early ’70s to get more financial and practical aid to raise their children.

“We were arrested a few times,” said Iris Cuevas, a fellow member of the now-defunct National Welfare Rights Organization. “They kept us there [in Cleveland] for hours and hours until they decided to let us go and then, I guess, no charges. We went to Columbus to the governor’s mansion to demonstrate. He turned on the sprinkler. We all got wet!”

Serrano, a Puerto Rican native, who died of complications from cancer March 5 at age 77, instructed Hispanic women whose husbands had abandoned them about welfare benefits and the importance of getting an education and a job.”*

*From: www.cleveland.com
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