North Carolina Map Tourist Attractions
North Carolina notable latinos Niggli, Josefina Maria (1910-1983). Josefina Maria Niggli, a popular playwright and author, was born in Monterrey, Mexico. The Mexican Revolution prompted her family to send …
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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, …
Fishing Fish for Fun
More and more anglers are realizing that in order to have good fishing tomorrow, we cannot kill all the fish we catch today. In Maine, this particularly applies to …
West Virginia Guide for Tourist
Pinnick Kinnick Hill, a fictionalized account written by Gavin Gonzalez, the son of Spanish migrants, is published. This bilingual text recounts the experiences of a Spanish zinc-mining family in …
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 …
Wyoming Subway Map
Wyoming chronology 1927 Comision Honorifica is established in Lovell, Wyoming, to combat social, economic, and political discrimination. 1940s A systematic, organized labor protest by sugar beet and railroad workers …
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Mexicans begin moving to Ohio to work at the mills in Lorain. These are the first Latino migrants to permanently settle the region. In 1926 a Mexican baseball team …
West Virginia Travel Destinations
Still, their lives were often difficult. In the coal towns, Spanish migrants (among other Europeans) were subject to intimidation from Anglo-Americans especially members of the Ku Klux Klan, who …
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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 …