New York Map
New York The Latino Entrepreneurial Spirit From the start, Latinos in New York have contributed to the economy mostly as laborers and semiskilled workers, though a small sector composed …
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South Dakota Metro Map
HISTORICAL OVERVIEW The history of Latinos in South Dakota starts in 1492 with the arrival of Christopher Columbus (c. 1451-1506) in the Americas. As a result of his discoveries, …
Philadelphia Metro Map
Philadelphia HISTORICAL OVERVIEW The history of Pennsylvania’s contact with Latin America begins in Philadelphia, the port city that had strong commercial ties with Cuba dating back at least to …
Texas Map Tourist Attractions
Colonial Texas In 1519, Spanish explorer Alonso Alvarez de Pineda explored and mapped the Texas coastline. However, the first true exploration of Texas occurred some nine years later. A …
North Dakota Subway Map
North Dakota notable latinos Mayo, Sonia (1959-). A community leader in Fargo-Moorhead for over 20 years, she worked with migrant families from 1983 to 1987. She was the first …
New Mexico Map
New Mexico CULTURAL CONTRIBUTIONS Religion and Religious Art Catholicism was brought to New Mexico by Spanish Franciscan missionaries whose presence and dominance in New Mexico would place a unique …
Nebraska Subway Map
Nebraska Spanish Presence Around the 1530s, Spanish explorer Alvar Nunez Cabeza de Vaca reported seeing bison and bison hides. Historians believe this shipwrecked explorer reached the outer edges …
New Mexico Metro Map
New Mexico historical overview New Mexico was born in Zacatecas, the colonial silver city in Mexico. Don Juan de Onate the man credited with claiming New Mexico for the …
Mississippi Map
Mississippi Isolated Migrations in the 1970s-1980s Mechanical cotton pickers notwithstanding, there was still much low-wage labor to be performed in Mississippi this time, in more industrialized sectors, such as …
Kentucky Map
CULTURAL CONTRIBUTIONS As a border state between North and South that stretches from Appalachia to the Mississippi River, Kentucky has long had a complex and multifaceted culture that has …