Nebraska
Nebraska chronology Spanish explorer Francisco Vasquez de Coronado travels across the present-day southwestern United States into Kansas. Though there is no evidence he crossed into Nebraska, Coronado claimed the …
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Mississippi Vacations
Mississippi Hurricane Katrina On the one hand Hurricane Katrina devastated south Mississippi’s Latinos; on the other it provided job opportunities for thousands of would-be newcomers. Those who did not …
Minnesota
Minnesota chronology 1860 Luis Garzon, an upper-class Mexican musician, is the first recorded Latino to settle in Minnesota. Although Garzon lived in Minneapolis, he was a leader in the …
Nebraska Metro Map
Nebraska Historical Overview The agricultural heartland of today, the state of Nebraska once sustained sparsely populated indigenous groups. Introduced by the Spaniards, the horse changed the landscape of the …
Map of Montana
Montana as an Emerging Gateway Although Latinos have lived in Billings and Butte since the early twentieth century, the Gallatin Valley has recently received such an influx of documented …
Michigan Travel Destinations
Michigan bibliography Baba, Marietta L., and Malvina Hauk Abonyi. Mexicans of Detroit. Detroit, MI: Wayne State University, 1979. Badillo, David. Latinos in Michigan. East Lansing: Michigan State University Press, …
Kentucky Subway Map
In Kentucky the civil rights struggles of the 1950s and 1960s were almost entirely a black-white issue. About the only Latino role in the struggle occurred in 1956, when …
Maryland
CHRONOLOGY 1500 The Juan de la Cosa map of the world (1500) indicates that John Cabot (Giovanni Caboto), the only explorer sailing the North American coast at that time …
Holiday in Iowa
Iowa notable latinos Lisa, Manuel (1772-1820). A well-known fur trader and explorer who founded the Missouri Fur Company, Lisa was born in New Orleans of Spanish parents (his father …
Maine Metro Map
Maine is home to an estimated 1.1 percent of all Latinos in New England. This small Latino population in Maine consists of people who have migrated to the southern …