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Kentucky historical overview Esteban Rodriguez Miro is not a household name in Kentucky, but if that Spanish governor of New Orleans’s plans had succeeded, Kentucky might have seceded from …
Despite the gradual increase in numbers of Latinos in higher education, in Illinois there is a disparity in representation of Latino faculty and staff. In 2002 the Illinois Board …
Railroad and Farm Laborers In the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries Mexican American pioneer families such as the Urquides, Fontes, Ortiz, Amera, Valdez, Galindo, Ocampo, Ursino, Escaso, Ruiz, …
Between 1990 and 2005, the Latino population in Georgia increased 474 percent; by 2000, there were Latinos living in every one of Georgia’s 159 counties. African Americans, who compose …
Delaware BIBLIOGRAPHY Borland, Katherine. Creating Community: Hispanic Migration to Rural Delaware. Wilmington, DE: Delaware Heritage Press, 2001. Caldwell, Christopher. Hola, Delaware! How Guatemalan Immigrants Changed a Small American Town. …
NOTABLE LATINOS Camacho Souza, Blase (1918-). Camacho Souza founded the Puerto Rican Heritage Society in 1980, and he is also the project director of the Puerto Rican House at …
Georgia’s Response to Latino Migration Although the business community has embraced the Latino market, other sectors of Georgian society have been slower to welcome the new residents. Overall, the …
In the midst of the Mariel boatlift, Haitian migrants were simultaneously attempting to cross the Florida straits and reach the United States. But Haiti did not have a communist …
The experience of Spaniards in colonial Florida was one of isolation, raids by rival European corsairs and freebooters, tense relations with nomadic Indian groups, and poor funding from the …