Nebraska
Nebraska chronology Spanish explorer Francisco Vasquez de Coronado travels across the present-day southwestern United States into Kansas. Though there is no evidence he crossed into Nebraska, Coronado claimed the …
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Mississippi Vacations
Mississippi Hurricane Katrina On the one hand Hurricane Katrina devastated south Mississippi’s Latinos; on the other it provided job opportunities for thousands of would-be newcomers. Those who did not …
Minnesota
Minnesota chronology 1860 Luis Garzon, an upper-class Mexican musician, is the first recorded Latino to settle in Minnesota. Although Garzon lived in Minneapolis, he was a leader in the …
Nebraska Metro Map
Nebraska Historical Overview The agricultural heartland of today, the state of Nebraska once sustained sparsely populated indigenous groups. Introduced by the Spaniards, the horse changed the landscape of the …
Michigan Travel Destinations
Michigan bibliography Baba, Marietta L., and Malvina Hauk Abonyi. Mexicans of Detroit. Detroit, MI: Wayne State University, 1979. Badillo, David. Latinos in Michigan. East Lansing: Michigan State University Press, …
Maryland
CHRONOLOGY 1500 The Juan de la Cosa map of the world (1500) indicates that John Cabot (Giovanni Caboto), the only explorer sailing the North American coast at that time …
Holiday in Iowa
Iowa notable latinos Lisa, Manuel (1772-1820). A well-known fur trader and explorer who founded the Missouri Fur Company, Lisa was born in New Orleans of Spanish parents (his father …
Massachusetts
Damian Nemirovsky CHRONOLOGY 1890s The Boston Independence Club Cuba-Borinquen advocates for Puerto Rican and Cuban independence. 1898 Massachusetts loses 292 men in the Spanish-American War. 1917 Congress naturalizes all …
Illinois notable latinos
Parsons, Lucy (c. 1853-1942). Activist Lucy Parsons identified herself as an African American woman of Native American and Mexican descent. Parsons was an activist who stood up for the …
Maine Travel Destinations
Latinos have had some success starting new businesses in southern Maine. The 1997 U.S. Census Bureau’s Economic Census reported that Maine had 545 Latino-owned businesses, which employed 677 workers. …