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Recent Mexican Migration Emerging patterns of rapid and massive migration reflect a new trend in Mexican migration to America’s heartland beginning in the early 1990s. Recent research on Mexicans …
Latino Political and Cultural Organizing in Oregon: 1950s-1980s Religious organizations initiated the first services for Latinos in the state of Oregon. The Portland Catholic Archdiocese established a Migrant Ministry …
Oregon historical overview Colonial Mexico to Twentieth-Century U.S. Latino Oregon Any discussion of Latinos in Oregon has to begin with a larger discussion of the history of Spanish colonialism, …
Latino Migration to Rural and Urban Tennessee Latino migration has affected both rural and urban Tennessee, but not in uniform ways. In Tennessee cities, Latino population growth has been …
Tennessee HISTORICAL OVERVIEW Tennessee only recently became a popular Latino destination, but its emergence as such has been quick and dramatic. From 1990 to 2000, the state’s Mexican-born population, …
Oregon 1950s-1970s: Settlers and a Second Generation Growers in the Northwest led by the larger commercial agricultural interests soon found a new source of labor Mexican American migratory laborers …
Latinos in Tennessee, 1540-1950 Tennessee’s earliest documented European presence is the Spanish conquistador Hernando de Soto, who came in 1540 in search of gold. In 1541, De Soto and …
The 1920s-1940s The development of commercial agricultural production in the Northwest, facilitated by the completion of the northern transcontinental railroad and the development of public and private irrigation …