Atlas of Hispanic-American History

Hispanic Americans also admired Roosevelt for his Good Neighbor Policy toward Latin America. Roosevelt’s pred- ecessor, Herbert ...

Organizing for a Better Life The pace of organized efforts to improve the conditions of Hispanic-American life picked up under t ...

and Allied Workers of America (UCA- PAWA), won strikers union recognition and a lower decrease in wages than had been expected. ...

government. Though originally aimed at helping African Americans, it enabled many Mexican Americans to obtain jobs they might ot ...

Even more than World War I, in which fewer Mexican Americans fought, the experience of World War II changed Mexican Americans. H ...

the world beyond the barrio and the colo- nia and more determined to demand the rights due to them as Americans. Hispanic Heroes ...

the convictions and dismissed all charges for lack of evidence. Despite the dismissal, the high-pro- file coverage of the trial ...

S ince World War II, more Hispanics have come to the United States than in all its previous history. Much of that influx occurre ...

century-old tradition of Mexican per- formances in California, and Aztec and Maya sacred ritual dramas. LATINO CULTURAL ACHIEVEM ...

Mexican theater in the early twentieth century, that did not mean serious themes did not underlie the presentations. Instead, th ...

(2) the organizational support of the national theater must be from within and totally independent; (3) “Teatros must never get ...

Rita Moreno was the only Hispanic with a significant role. Fine Arts As in the case of Latino theater, works by Hispanic America ...

the early twentieth century Dadaist movement. In one of his best-known works, Piano Destruction Concert,he hacked a piano to pie ...

leader Xavier Cugat founded the Waldorf- Astoria Orchestra in New York, and intro- duced a highly commercialized (and enormously ...

people who were counted again each year they participated. Hundreds of thousands of braceros ultimately settled in the United St ...

because mojados were not protected from abuse by the rules of the bracero program, they found themselves paid less than the brac ...

federal government, not only did the government frequently ignore the prac- tice, but it also provided growers with legal loopho ...

others came and went seasonally. This vast flow of immigration continued after the demise of the bracero program, filling the co ...

year; during the 1980s, more than 1 mil- lion per year were deported. Uncounted numbers eluded deportation and stayed in the Uni ...

LA RAZA UNIDA 173 1898 Luis Muñoz Marín, son of Luis Muñoz Rivera, the Puerto Rican freedom fighter and diplomat, is born in San ...