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 …
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 …
Travel to Massachusetts
Massachusetts Early Latino Populations in Smaller Cities and Towns Smaller cities in the commonwealth such as Lowell, Lawrence, and Holyoke also experienced a great deal of Puerto Rican migration, …
Iowa Guide for Tourist
The significant increase in the Latino population in Iowa was met with a variety of different perspectives. Iowa has never been a homogenous white state, as there has always …