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The first Portuguese immigrants to Newark came during the early 1900s and the greatest influx of Portuguese was during the 1950s. Despite there being very little immigration from Portugal in the 21st-century, there are still many Portuguese-speaking immigrants settling in the city and its surrounding area.
After World War II, there was another wave of Portuguese immigration to the country, mainly in the northeastern United States (New Jersey, New York, Connecticut, Rhode Island, Massachusetts and Maryland), and also in California. Many were fleeing the right-wing dictatorship of Antonio Salazar. There are Portuguese clubs, principally in the ...
Polish and Italian immigrants arrived in the latter half of the 19th century, followed by Portuguese and Spanish starting in the 1910s. [8] [10] By 1921 there was a large enough Portuguese population to found Sport Club Portuguese, [11] the first of over twenty Portuguese social clubs that would call the Ironbound home. [12]
Martins is a former Mayor of Mineola, New York. Martins is a first-generation American, born to parents who emigrated from northern Portugal in the 1960s. Dina Matos McGreevey (born 1966), former New Jersey First Lady. [46] Devin Nunes, member of U.S. House of Representatives from California.
This act dramatically increased Portuguese immigration in the 1970s and 1980s. [288] Major Portuguese communities arose in New Jersey (particularly in Newark), the New England states, California and along the Gulf Coast (Louisiana). Springfield, Illinois once hosted the largest Portuguese community in the Midwest. [289]
The percentage of Latinos in Newark, the most populous city in New Jersey, grew considerably between 1980 and 2010, from 18.6% to 33.8%; that of blacks has slightly decreased from 58.2% to 52.4%. Hispanics or Latinos of any race were 33.83% (93,746) or one-third of the population, [ 16 ] of which 13% of the total population was Puerto Rican ...
Newark's old Penn station, ca. 1911 1910-era map of ethnic enclaves in Newark, New Jersey. Newark was bustling in the early-to-mid-20th century. Market and Broad Streets served as a center of retail commerce for the region, anchored by four flourishing department stores: Hahne & Company, Bambergers and Company, S. Klein and Kresge-Newark ...
1.23 New Jersey. 1.24 New York. 1.25 North Carolina. 1.26 Ohio. 1.27 Oregon. 1.28 Pennsylvania. ... Newark, high percentage of Portuguese people within the Ironbound ...