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By 1953, Puerto Rican migration to New York reached its peak when 75,000 people left the island. [11] Ricky Martin at the annual Puerto Rican parade in New York City. Operation Bootstrap ("Operación Manos a la Obra") is the name given to the ambitious projects which industrialized Puerto Rico in the mid-20th century engineered by Teodoro ...
In 1961 he published A Puerto Rican in New York, and other sketches, containing various vignettes about his life. He also had two posthumous collections, titled Lo que el pueblo me dice--: crónicas de la colonia puertorriqueña en Nueva York and The way it was, and other writings: historical vignettes about the New York Puerto Rican community.
The Puerto Rican migration to New York City manifested with the rising unemployment rates and rapid marginalization of Puerto Ricans. The standard of living grew, as a result pushing Puerto Ricans out of the island in search for jobs. [8] For the first time Puerto Ricans were granted the right to vote for their representatives.
Navarro was the second Puerto Rican to play baseball in the American Negro leagues, two years after Gacho Torres played for the 1926 Newark Stars. At the time of his death, at age 105, Navarro was the oldest former professional baseball player and the last surviving player from the American Negro League. [2]
Pura Belpré (1899 or 1903–1982) – author; first Puerto Rican librarian in New York City [205] Giannina Braschi – Puerto Rican poet and novelist; lives in New York [206] Julia de Burgos (1914–1953) – considered by many as the greatest Puerto Rican poet and one of the greatest female poets of Latin America; died in New York [207]
Following the 1945 season, Santiago traveled to New York on a barnstorming trip with other Puerto Rican All-Stars. He was scouted by Negro league veteran John Beckwith who signed him to play for the Atlanta Black Crackers. Midway through the 1945 season, Santiago left the Black Crackers and signed with the New York Cubans of the Negro National ...
Petra Allende (June 29, 1920 – April 1, 2002) was a Puerto-Rican factory worker and clerk, who worked as an activist in New York City's El Barrio neighborhood. In the 1960s, she began working to overturn laws which required literacy to vote.
Carlota Matienzo Román (June 14, 1881– July 31, 1926) was a Puerto Rican teacher and feminist.She is credited with working for reform of the public school system in Puerto Rico, and as one of the founders in 1917 of the Puerto Rican Feminine League and in 1921 of the Suffragist Social League.