Monserrat, Joseph

Abstract Manny Diaz was a founding member of such community based organizations as the Puerto Rican Forum, ASPIRA, the Hispanic Youth Association, the Puerto Rican Family Institute and Boricua College. He was trained as a social worker and went on to lead numerous institutions and initiatives, among them the Puerto Rican Community Development Project, Mobilization for Youth and PROGRESS, Inc. He received his B.S.S. from the City University and his M.S.W. from Columbia University. He served on the...

Abstract Politician, lawyer, community activist. First Puerto Rican elected to public office in the U.S. An important source for the study of early Puerto Rican political life and of the existent conditions of the East (Spanish) Harlem community in the first part of the twentieth century. In addition, it provides a viewfinder into labor politics and the political and social alliances created amongst emerging ethnic communities in New York City. Collection consists of correspondence, speeches,...

Scope and Contents From the Collection: The collection contains interviews with five key staff members from the Offices of the Government of Puerto Rico in the United States' Migration Division and recorded 13 audiocassettes including: Joseph Monserrat, National and New York Office Director of the Division from 1951 to 1969, Anna Class Assistant to Monserrat, Luis Cardona the Employment Office director; Tony Vega, seasonal Farm worker’s Programs director and Alan Perl, the lawyer who dealt with the seasonal farm workers’ contracts...

Scope and Contents From the Collection: The collection contains interviews with five key staff members from the Offices of the Government of Puerto Rico in the United States' Migration Division and recorded 13 audiocassettes including: Joseph Monserrat, National and New York Office Director of the Division from 1951 to 1969, Anna Class Assistant to Monserrat, Luis Cardona the Employment Office director; Tony Vega, seasonal Farm worker’s Programs director and Alan Perl, the lawyer who dealt with the seasonal farm workers’ contracts...

Scope and Contents From the Collection: The Luis A. Cardona Oral History Collection is comprised of interviews with people who were leaders in the New York Puerto Rican community during the 1950s through 1980s. The collection documents Cardona’s interests in the Puerto Rican community of New York and the diaspora as a whole. The topics of the interviews and Cardona’s interests include: migratory history, education, culture, and the arts, among many others. The collection serves to understand Puerto Rican experiences in the United...

Scope and Contents From the Collection: The collection contains interviews with five key staff members from the Offices of the Government of Puerto Rico in the United States' Migration Division and recorded 13 audiocassettes including: Joseph Monserrat, National and New York Office Director of the Division from 1951 to 1969, Anna Class Assistant to Monserrat, Luis Cardona the Employment Office director; Tony Vega, seasonal Farm worker’s Programs director and Alan Perl, the lawyer who dealt with the seasonal farm workers’ contracts...

Scope and Contents From the Collection: The Luis A. Cardona Oral History Collection is comprised of interviews with people who were leaders in the New York Puerto Rican community during the 1950s through 1980s. The collection documents Cardona’s interests in the Puerto Rican community of New York and the diaspora as a whole. The topics of the interviews and Cardona’s interests include: migratory history, education, culture, and the arts, among many others. The collection serves to understand Puerto Rican experiences in the United...

Scope and Contents From the Collection: The collection contains interviews with five key staff members from the Offices of the Government of Puerto Rico in the United States' Migration Division and recorded 13 audiocassettes including: Joseph Monserrat, National and New York Office Director of the Division from 1951 to 1969, Anna Class Assistant to Monserrat, Luis Cardona the Employment Office director; Tony Vega, seasonal Farm worker’s Programs director and Alan Perl, the lawyer who dealt with the seasonal farm workers’ contracts...

Scope and Contents From the Collection: The Luis A. Cardona Oral History Collection is comprised of interviews with people who were leaders in the New York Puerto Rican community during the 1950s through 1980s. The collection documents Cardona’s interests in the Puerto Rican community of New York and the diaspora as a whole. The topics of the interviews and Cardona’s interests include: migratory history, education, culture, and the arts, among many others. The collection serves to understand Puerto Rican experiences in the United...

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The Lapp Oral History Collection consists of interviews conducted by Michael Lapp in 1984-85 with several Migration Division officers, including Luis Cardona, Joseph Monserrat, Director from 1951 to 1969, and Alan Perl, the lawyer responsible for the seasonal farm workers’ contracts negotiated by the Division. This collection complements the OGPRUS Migration Division Records.

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A government official and community leader. Collection contains correspondence, speeches, manuscripts, subject files, information about community organizations, and materials related to his positions on the Board of Education of the City of New York, the Migration Division of the Government of Puerto Rico and the Department of Community Affairs in the United States.

Abstract The Records of the Offices of the Government of Puerto Rico in the United States (OGPRUS) is an artificial collection name created to facilitate access to the records of several agencies of the government of Puerto Rico dealing with the Puerto Rican migration to continental United States. These offices operated from a central office in New York City and throughout various regional and local offices located mainly in the northeast and mid-west region of the country from 1930 to 1993. ...

Abstract Según Lo Veo was a Spanish language public service radio program transmitted by the WHOM station in 1955 and later on broadcasted at WADO radio station in 1962. This program was hosted by Joseph Monserrat (National Director) and other staff members from the Migration Division, an agency of the government of Puerto Rico’s Labor Department, providing services to the Puerto Rican migrants living in New York City. The radio program was an informal conversation between a government official and...

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The Felipe N. Torres Papers are an important resource for the study of early Puerto Rican political life in New York City, as well as about the contributions of Puerto Rican pioneros to law, politics and civic life. The materials in this collection consist of personal documents, clippings, photographs, speeches, certificates and correspondence.