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The Club Hispano Americano (Hispanic American Club) is the first known Latin American student organization founded at the collegiate level in the United States. It was founded at Lehigh University in 1887. [1] The club was created by international Latin American students who came to the United States to study
First African American male (common pleas): Raymond Pace Alexander (1923) in 1959 [24] First African American male (superior court): Theodore O. Spaulding in 1966 [25] First African American male (Supreme Court of Pennsylvania): Robert N. C. Nix Jr. (c. 1954) in 1972 [26] First Asian American male: William M. Marutani in 1975 [27] [28] [29] [22]
The League of United Latin American Citizens (LULAC) is the largest and oldest Hispanic and Latin-American civil rights organization in the United States. [2] It was established on February 17, 1929, in Corpus Christi, Texas, largely by Hispanics returning from World War I who sought to end ethnic discrimination against Latinos in the United States.
BETHLEHEM, Pa. (AP) — Just blocks from the shuttered Bethlehem Steel plant, the Hispanic Center Lehigh Valley was bustling on a recent day with scores of older people eating lunch.
The Hispanic or Latino population is greatest in Bethlehem, Allentown, Reading, Lancaster, York, and around Philadelphia. As of 2010, the vast majority of Hispanics and Latino Americans in Pennsylvania, about 85%, live within a 150-mile (240 km) radius of Philadelphia, and about 20% live in the city itself.
The organization was established in 1985 by Palestinian-American doctor Edward A. Hazboun and others, as a means of preserving and promoting the cultural heritage of the Bethlehem region. The organization organizes social activities for its members, and is also involved in fund-raising for charities and scholarships in Bethlehem.
The ASPIRA Association is an American nonprofit organization whose mission is to "empower the Latino community through advocacy and the education and leadership development of its youth". [4] ASPIRA's national office is in Washington, D.C., and it has affiliates in Connecticut, Delaware, Florida, Illinois, Massachusetts, New Jersey, New York ...
The Greater Philadelphia Hispanic Chamber of Commerce (GPHCC) is a 501(c)3 not-for-profit organization in the Philadelphia region focused on Hispanic businesses and professionals. The GPHCC serves three major constituents: (1) minority owned businesses, (2) minority professionals, and (3) large mainstream businesses.