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James Dickson Carr: [80] First African American male to serve as an Assistant District Attorney for New York County, New York (1899) Harold A. Stevens (1938): [ 61 ] [ 31 ] First African American male to serve as a Supreme Court Justice, First Judicial District (New York and Bronx Counties, 1955)
LatinoJustice PRLDEF, long known by its former name the Puerto Rican Legal Defense and Education Fund, is a New York–based national civil rights organization with the goal of changing discriminatory practices via advocacy and litigation.
From 1978 to 1980, Gonzalez was General Counsel for the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico from 1978 to 1980. He served on the New York City Civil Court as Housing Court Judge from 1985 to 1986 and a Civil Court Judge from 1987 to 1992. He was a New York Supreme Court Justice, 12th Judicial District, from 1992 to 2002.
United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York Interim; In office January 1, 1989 – October 16, 1989: President: Ronald Reagan George H. W. Bush: Preceded by: Rudy Giuliani: Succeeded by: Otto G. Obermaier: Personal details; Born: 1950 (age 73–74) Bronx, New York: Nationality: Puerto Rican-American: Children: 5: Alma mater ...
Nelson Antonio Denis is an American attorney, author, film director, and former representative to the New York State Assembly.From 1997 through 2000, Denis represented New York's 68th Assembly district, which includes the East Harlem and Spanish Harlem neighborhoods, both highly populated by Latinos.
In each of the five current U.S. territories, Hispanic or non-white ethnic groups make up large majorities: Puerto Rican Hispanic Americans in Puerto Rico, African Americans in the U.S. Virgin Islands, Chamorros in Guam and the Northern Mariana Islands, and Samoans in American Samoa. Elected attorneys general and some appointed attorneys ...
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 ...
The earliest predecessor of today's PRBA was the Pan-American Lawyers' Association, organized around 1934. [1] In the mid-1940s, the Spanish-American Bar Association was organized as a new organization which, in 1957, became the present day PRBA.