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Nicknamed "Cha Cha", José Jiménez was born in Caguas, Puerto Rico, to parents Eugenia Rodríguez Flores (1929–2013), of San Lorenzo, and Antonio Jiménez Rodríguez (1924–1973) of San Salvador, Caguas. In 1949, when Jiménez was an infant, his mother Eugenia moved with him from Puerto Rico to New York City.
Antonia Pantoja (September 13, 1922 – May 24, 2002), was a Puerto Rican educator, social worker, feminist, civil rights leader and the founder of ASPIRA, the Puerto Rican Forum, Boricua College and Producir. In 1996, she was the first Puerto Rican woman to receive the American Presidential Medal of Freedom.
It also met with editors of the New York Daily News to complain about "negative images of Puerto Ricans presented by the News' staff," especially those coming from popular columnist Jimmy Breslin. [14] Future federal judge and U.S. Supreme Court nominee Sonia Sotomayor was an active member of the board of directors of PRLDEF from 1980 to 1992. [3]
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 ...
As chapter size in Chicago increased and prominence grew, Puerto Ricans in New York wanted to expand to their own communities of East Harlem, Brooklyn, the Bronx, etc. The New York chapter of the Young Lords was established in 1969, one year before the Takeover of the Lincoln Hospital in the South Bronx took place. [3]
NASW has 55 chapters, with chapters in each of the 50 states, New York City, Washington, D.C., Puerto Rico, the United States Virgin Islands, and Guam. [3] Each chapter has a board of directors that develops programs to serve its members and to facilitate participation by its members.
Rivera was born and raised in New York City and lived most of her life in or near the city; she was born to a Puerto Rican father and a Venezuelan mother. [15] She was abandoned by her birth father José Rivera early in life, and became an orphan after her mother died by suicide when Rivera was three years old. [11]
Angelo Falcón (June 23, 1951 – May 24, 2018) was a Puerto Rican political scientist best known for starting the Institute for Puerto Rican Policy (IPR) in New York City in the early 1980s, a nonprofit and nonpartisan policy center that focuses on Latino issues in the United States.