Wyoming Map
Wyoming Fur Trade At the turn of the nineteenth century, the profitable frontier fur trade in the inter-Rocky Mountain region became a focal point of contestation between indigenous peoples, …
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Ohio Subway Map
The Communities Of Lorain And Cleveland Lured by jobs, Latinos migrated to the Midwest to work in the agricultural fields and industrial centers of the region. Ohio, especially the …
Texas Metro Map
Texas CHRONOLOGY With the support of the UFW, South Texas melon workers begin the Starr County Strike, protesting bad working conditions and low salaries. The strike marks the beginning …
West Virginia Map Tourist Attractions
Early Latino Presence in West Virginia’s Mining Communities In the early 1900s, West Virginia boasted a prospering economy based on coal mining and an incipient zinc industry. The successful …
Washington Map
Washington Agricultural Development Since the establishment of a Latin American presence in Washington in the late 1770s, the early economic development of the state mostly involved Mexicans who traveled …
Map of Philadelphia
Philadelphia Current Demographics In the early twenty-first century, Latino Pennsylvania continues to grow. Latinos composed 3.2 percent of the state population in 2000, and in 2005 had grown to …
South Carolina Map Tourist Attractions
Response to Latino Migration While a number of middle-class Latino professionals live in South Carolina, the majority of Latinos are new, working-class migrants. Some observers are quick to point …
Philadelphia Subway Map
Philadelphia Migration and the Labor Force Cigar-making factories would continue to be an important source of employment well into the 1950s, but the industrialization of Philadelphia in the late …
South Carolina Metro Map
Colonial South Carolina The Latino presence in South Carolina dates to the early sixteenth century. Spanish exploration of the region of present-day South Carolina began when Lucas Vasquez de …
Tennessee Map
Changing Social Relations in Tennessee Although Latinos have much in common with generations of rural Tennesseans who migrated to midwestern and northeastern cities, Latinos are often perceived as …