Wisconsin Map
Historical Route to Wisconsin Historians believe the first Latinos to arrive by the thousands came shortly after the turn of the twentieth century. Many came from Mexico and headed …
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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 …
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, …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …