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  2. Puerto Ricans in New York City - Wikipedia

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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 ...

  3. Bernardo Vega (writer) - Wikipedia

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    When Vega first arrived to New York City in 1916, the Puerto Rican population was only a few thousand. Many of these migrants came from the cigar making profession in Puerto Rico and Cuba. [2] This led to employment for many of these migrants at cigar-making shops or other factories, where their tabaquero skills were used. [2]

  4. Jack Agüeros - Wikipedia

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    During the 1960s, Agüeros worked with a variety of community groups in New York. Starting out at the Henry Street Settlement, he moved on to the Office of Economic Opportunity, a federal agency created by President Lyndon Johnson to fight the War on Poverty, before becoming the deputy director of the Puerto Rican Community Development Project (PRCDP), [3] the nation's first Puerto Rican anti ...

  5. Oscar García Rivera - Wikipedia

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    In 1956, Garcia Rivera became the first Puerto Rican to be nominated as the Republican candidate for Justice of the City Court. Garcia Rivera was an active member of the legal community and served as President and Board Member of the Puerto Rican Bar Association of New York. [3] Garcia Rivera and his wife later moved back to Puerto Rico.

  6. Tony Méndez - Wikipedia

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    A wave of domestic migration from Puerto Rico to New York City came after World War II. Nearly 40,000 Puerto Ricans settled in New York City in 1946, and 58,500 in 1952–53. Many soldiers who returned after World War II made use of the GI Bill and went to college. Puerto Rican women confronted economic exploitation, discrimination, racism, and ...

  7. Carmine DeSapio - Wikipedia

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    Tammany Hall had dominated New York City politics from the mayoral victory of Fernando Wood in 1854 until the election of Fiorello H. La Guardia in 1933. [2] DeSapio was first elected a district captain in 1939, but was rejected by the leadership in the struggle between Irish and Italian interests for control of the organization. [ 3 ]

  8. Jesús Colón - Wikipedia

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    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.

  9. Caridad de la Luz - Wikipedia

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    After the Producers Club, Boogie Rican Blvd. sold out an eight-week run at the LATEA Theater in New York, was featured prominently in the Nuyorican Poet's Cafe, and made a four-week run in the Puerto Rican Traveling Theater (PRTT) in 2009. [1] In its review of the PRTT production, The New York Times announced that De la Luz "is a juggernaut". [9]