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The Doval Family Collection is a geneaology collection, which contains some family personal documents, family portraits and one copy of an iconic passenger list booklet for the New York and Porto Rico Steamship Company. This family initially moved to New York from Puerto Rico and eventually settled in New Jersey.

Scope and Contents The Dr. Antonia Pantoja Fellowship Collection (DAPF) consists of institutional records including e-mail correspondences, board meeting minutes, financial records, strategic planning, and fundraising. The materials in this collection span from 1976 to 2012 with the bulk concentrating on the years 2005 to 2012.Researchers will be able to look through DAPF’s lifespan as a community-based, Latine led, education focused non-profit, in connection with ASPIRA and Dr. Antonia Pantoja’s...

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A civic, non-partisan association committed to the political education and empowerment of the residents of East Harlem (known as El Barrio). The collection measures 1.25 cubic feet and includes agendas, maps, a guide book and member listings.

Abstract This small collection offers insight into the work of community leaders in East Harlem. Founded in 1979 by residents and community leaders in El Barrio, the East Harlem Council for Community Improvement focused on delivering a broad range of human services to the residents of Manhattan’s Community Planning Board #11. It later expanded its reach and provided services in communities in the South Bronx, Lower East Side, and Central and West Harlem. It consists primarily of news articles,...

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Filmmaker and communications specialist. Collection contains videocassettes, film reels, mixed audio tracks and a number of publications. This collection concerns the PBS Latino-focused program, Visiones, and footage about Los Sures, his 1984 film documentary about five different people who live in this Brooklyn neighborhood.

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Established in 1958, the Santiago Iglesias Educational Society (S.I.E.S) served as a resource to Puerto Rican and other Spanish speaking communities in New York City. Efraín Díaz was a board member of the Santiago Iglesias Educational Society and the collection he donated contains mostly photocopies of newspaper clippings, photographs, flyers, correspondences, certificates, meeting agendas and minutes.

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The collection contains numerous short stories and poems written by Sandra María Esteves from 1973-1979.

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Victor Fernández Fragoso (1944-1982) was a gay Puerto Rican writer, poet, playwright and Spanish language and Caribbean literature professor in New York and New Jersey. His collection includes original works in poetry and theater, annotated research, coursework from the Puerto Rican Literature class he taught, and posthumous material. The bulk of the collection covers the 1970s-early 1980s.

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The Rafael Fragoza papers spanning from 1917 to 1955 document his military service during World War I and his life in New York City. This small collection consists of a few personal documents and photographs from his military service and family.

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,...

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...

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This collection consists of 40 audiocassettes containing interviews with 28 interviewees conducted by Glasser while writing her book/ dissertation, My Music is My Flag. The collection contains interviews of prominent Puerto Rican musicians, composers, music store owners, and their relatives. The interviews date from 1988 to 1993.

Abstract Kathy Goldman is a community activist whose advocacy on New York City public school integration, school meals program, city-side summer lunch program and food security for low income New Yorkers span five decades. For many years, her work was centered in East Harlem “El Barrio” and the Lower East Side or “Loisaida” where an increasing Puerto Rican population fought for community control of local school boards and improving public school curriculum. This collection contains correspondence,...

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Juan González is a Puerto Rican social activist and journalist, as well as a community organizer and labor leader. His papers contain complete set of González’ columns, information on various organizations, unpublished manuscripts, correspondence and research material on a wide range of topics.

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Jaime Haslip-Peña worked on the steamship Borinquen for the U.S. Customs Service. This collection serves as a documentation of the lives of the steamship merchant marines. It includes an audiotape and 150 photographs.

Abstract José Hernández-Álvarez was a consultant for the Ford Foundation in Brazil and a professor at the University of Arizona, Tucson; the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee; and Hunter College, CUNY (Black and Puerto Rican Studies Department), New York, NY. He had a role in the 1980 Census Advisory Committee and worked at the International Population and Urban Research Institute at the University of California, Berkeley. The collection consists of correspondence, photographs, reports, clippings and...

Abstract Juan Hernández Cruz was an activist and organizer of el Partido Independentista Puertorriqueño (the Puerto Rican Independence Party) chapter in New York City. He was one of the main spokespersons for the organization in the United Nations Decolonization Committee. This collection documents the Independence group’s efforts and Hernández Cruz’s work behind the scenes to keep Puerto Rico on the UN Committee agenda after the U.S. succeeded in removing it from its list of colonial territories in...

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The Julio Luis Hernández-Delgado Oral History Collection consists of 16 interviews with 10 people donated by the Hunter College Archivist in the field of Latin American and Puerto Rican Studies. Among them are interviews and book readings, several with children’s books writer, Pura Belpré.

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The Luz Hernández papers offer insight into non-traditonal methods of therapy and intervention programs for at-risk students. Primarily comprised of photographs, the collection documents yoga, art, and movement therapies, and other the other programs Hernández led to support New York City public school students' mental health, social development, and academic needs during the mid 1980s through the 2000s.

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The Hispanic Ministry collection consists of writings from various church organizations of denominations such as Episcopalian, Baptist, Methodist and Pentecostal, including contact information for the churches and members, as well as writings on language, ethnicity, cultural and socio-economic differences within the church, and various writings on Hispanic congregations. The collection dates from 1951-1991.

Abstract HoMoVISIONES was a public access television program dedicated to Latine LGBTQ+ issues. The collection is made up of correspondence, topical and administrative files, clippings, flyers, posters, proposals, scripts, reports and multi-format video recordings. Dating from 1980-2002, the collected materials offer rich documentation on queer and Latine social and political movements, as well as their cultural counterparts. It mainly deals with activities in the New York metropolitan area in the...

Abstract The Institute for the Puerto Rican Hispanic Elderly, a non-profit organization, has a mission to improve the quality of life of the Puerto Rican Hispanic elderly residing in New York City. More broadly, they also advocate and program for Latinx, minority, immigrant and elderly populations in the United States. The IPRHE materials consist of institutional documents, including programming and fundraising brochures and photograph albums, as well as issues of the Institute’s quarterly newspaper...

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The Joffre-Sureda Family was a upper middle class family from Mayagüez, Puerto Rico that migrated to New York and New Jersey. The Joffre-Sureda Family Scrapbook is a collection consisting of a leather-bound album created by Theresa Joffre which includes family photographs, mostly of herself and her son, Pedro Antonio (a.k.a. Peter), clippings, flyers, invitation and greeting cards, correspondence and other mementos. The collection dates to the 1930s.

Abstract José La Luz is a longtime social activist of the Hispanic community and a specialist in labor education programs for the Hispanic trade unionists at the School of Labor and Industrial Relations of Michigan State University. He was also the Socialist Party Chairman in Connecticut. The collection consists of documents, including writings by La Luz and his involvement in the trial of José Torres Cruz and José A. Torres Vega, as well as correspondence, newspaper articles and miscellaneous...

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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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The Carlos Laster Collection includes a selection of orginal artworks and artifacts donated to Centro. The pieces include papier-mâché sculptures, digital prints, and a poster.

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Tato Laviera was an acclaimed Puerto Rican poet, playwright, performer, educator, and community leader. Collection provides insight into Laviera’s life and career, as well as into the Nuyorican poetry movement, of which he was an early member. Collection consists of correspondence, manuscripts, typescripts, notebooks, press clippings, articles, flyers, event programs, posters, photographs, and audio and video recordings.

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The Anthony López Papers highlight the life and work of a charismatic community leader, with a demonstrated commitment to educational opportunity and leadership development for Latino youth, as evidenced by his years at ASPIRA of New York, Inc., among other organizations. The collection consists of letters, clippings, flyers, memoranda, minutes, reports, photographs, proposals, programs, newsletters and notes.

Abstract José López was a field representative for the AFL-CIO in New York, served in the 65th Infantry during the Korean War, and a founding member of the Santiago Iglesias Education Society. His papers contain biographical information, documents related to the Hispanic Labor Committee, the Congressional Hispanic Caucus, and the Santiago Iglesias Education Society, identification cards, correspondence, realia, and photographs. It also includes six VHS tapes documenting the activities of the Santiago...