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Hostos Community College

 Organization

Dates

  • Existence: 1968-

Found in 4 Collections and/or Records:

Elba Cabrera Papers

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: MSS 109
Abstract Pioneering advocate for Puerto Rican and Latino arts and culture, affectionately known as “La Madrina de las Artes.” Sister of activist Evelina Antonetty and library administrator Lillian López. Collection chronicles career with organizations including the Association of Hispanic Arts (AHA), Lehman Center for the Performing Arts, Center for the Media Arts, Hostos Community College, Bronx Council on the Arts and Girl Scouts of the USA, as well as her relationships with Puerto Rican and Latino...
Dates: 1924-2015; Majority of material found within 1970-2014
Found in: Archives of the Puerto Rican Diaspora / Elba Cabrera Papers

Claridad Bilingüe Negatives Collection

 Collection
Identifier: MSS 133
Abstract Claridad is a weekly newspaper of the Puerto Rican workers independence movement founded in San Juan on June 1, 1959. The paper was the official publication for the independence political movement (Pro Independencia, MPI) and later the Puerto Rican Socialist Party (Partido Socialista Puertorriqueno, PSP) in Puerto Rico. The Claridad USA (known as Claridad Bilingüe, the bilingual) edition became a source of information and a tool to disseminate news from the diaspora perspective in both...
Dates: 1967-1985
Found in: Archives of the Puerto Rican Diaspora / Claridad Bilingüe Negatives Collection

Robert García Congressional Papers

 Collection — Box 62: [Barcode: RoGa_062]
Identifier: MSS 110
Abstract This collection documents Roberts Garcia’s career as U.S. Representative of the South Bronx (1978-1990), at the time, the poorest congressional district in the country. The papers chronicle his work on the Post Office and Civil Service Committee, the Banking, Finance, and Urban Affairs Committee, the Foreign Affairs Committee, and his legislative work on issues of interest, such as immigration reform, bilingual education, and teen pregnancy. The collection also contains administrative and...
Dates: 1976-1994; Majority of material found within 1978-1989
Found in: Archives of the Puerto Rican Diaspora / Robert García Congressional Papers

Isaura Santiago Santiago Papers

 Collection — Folder 2: [Barcode: IsSa_002]
Identifier: MSS 118
Abstract

Educator and former President of Hostos Community College. Collection contains information on Vieques, Hispanic voting, reports, a historical calendar of Puerto Rico and an illustrated historical album of the island. Materials date from 1976 through 1994.

Dates: 1976-1994
Found in: Archives of the Puerto Rican Diaspora / Isaura Santiago Santiago Papers


About the Collections

Our collections consist of personal papers from prominent Puerto Rican artists, elected officials, social activists, writers, as well as the records of community-based organizations. Our largest collection, the Offices of the Government of Puerto Rico in the United States (OGPRUS) Records, measures approximately 2,900 cubic feet and contains an extraordinary amount of information regarding Puerto Rican migrants and the government institutions established to assist them. The collections date from the 1890s to the present, and document Puerto Rican communities in the Northeast, Midwest, Florida, California and Hawaii.

  • Centro Library & Archives
  • Silberman School of Social Work at Hunter College
    2180 Third Avenue, Room 120
  • New York, NY 10035
  • centro.library@hunter.cuny.edu
  • 212-396-7874

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