Poor Richard’s Almanack
Famous for such pithy sayings as Early to bed and early to rise, makes a man healthy wealthy and wise, Poor Richard’s Almanack was published annually by Benjamin Franklin …
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Colorado Guide for Tourist
Colorado Latinos and Racism In response to the racial prejudice that they encountered, Colorado’s Latino communities maintained grassroots efforts to strengthen their communities. Though Colorado’s Latino community did not …
California Chicano Social Movements
Throughout the 1960s and 1970s, Latino youth of Mexican descent reclaimed their ethnic identity and mobilized around it. Referring to themselves as Chicanos (a derivative of Mexicano and members …
Holiday in Arkansas
Latinos in Today’s Arkansas Although the Latino population remains concentrated in Little Rock, northwest Arkansas, and poultry-producing areas in Arkansas, by the early 2000s, the Latino presence was felt …
California Early Latino Settlements
California’s colonization began first with the arrival of Portuguese sailors exploring the coastline and continued with Spanish soldiers and Franciscan missionaries who accompanied them. Juan Rodriguez Cabrillo, a Portuguese …
Equity and Access at the End of the Twentieth Century Colorado
The same radical politics of Chicano nationalism spilled over into rural San Luis when, in 1978, three Chicano activists formed the Land Rights Council of San Luis to fight …
Puerto Rico
1524 Estevam Gomes de Santo (Portuguese Mariner) is sent by the Spanish Crown to explore the northeast coast of the New World. 1654 The General Court of Connecticut becomes …
Puerto Rico Guide
First Puerto Rican farmworkers are flown in to Hartford. The Hispanic Center of Greater Danbury is founded by a group of Latino community leaders as a civic center to …