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Puerto Ricans -- New York (State) -- Social conditions

 Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings

Found in 8 Collections and/or Records:

Diana Caballero Papers

 Collection
Identifier: MSS 33
Abstract Educator, community organizer and activist. Developed civil rights and educational reform organizations. Collection documents the right to equal educational opportunities in the Puerto Rican and Latino community of New York City, advocacy for bilingual education, community efforts to get Latino representation on the Board of Education of the City of New York, and the reform of district boards. Also provides history of the Puerto Rican/Latino Education Roundtable and the National Congress for...
Dates: Majority of material found within 1980-1999; 1967-1999
Found in: Archives of the Puerto Rican Diaspora / Diana Caballero Papers

Dr. Antonia Pantoja Fellowship Collection

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: MSS 267
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...
Dates: 1976-2012; Majority of material found in 2005-2012
Found in: Archives of the Puerto Rican Diaspora / Dr. Antonia Pantoja Fellowship Collection

Suleika Cabrera Drinane Institute for Puerto Rican/ Hispanic Elderly Records

 Collection
Identifier: MSS 26
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...
Dates: circa 1990s
Found in: Archives of the Puerto Rican Diaspora / Suleika Cabrera Drinane Institute for Puerto Rican/ Hispanic Elderly Records

Olga A. Méndez Senatorial Papers

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: MSS 165
Abstract New York State Senator (1978-2004) and first Puerto Rican woman elected to a state legislature in the continental United States. Senate district included East Harlem, parts of the South Bronx, Roosevelt Island and Washington Heights. Collection spans her 13 consecutive terms in the Senate, documenting her legislative functions and constituent service, as well as her leadership and advocacy on behalf of Puerto Ricans, Latinos and other underserved communities. Collection also serves as rich...
Dates: 1962-2004; Majority of material found within 1978 - 2004
Found in: Archives of the Puerto Rican Diaspora / Olga A. Méndez Senatorial Papers

Joseph Monserrat Papers

 Collection — Box 30: [Barcode: JoMo_030]
Identifier: MSS 42
Abstract

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.

Dates: Majority of material found within 1960s-1980s; 1953-2005
Found in: Archives of the Puerto Rican Diaspora / Joseph Monserrat Papers

José F. Morales The Toxic Avengers Collection

 Collection
Identifier: MSS 202
Abstract The José F. Morales The Toxic Avengers Collection was created and donated by José F. Morales, an environmental activist and alternative high school teacher. The collection documents the organizational activities of Morales’ brainchild, The Toxic Avengers. The Toxic Avengers (1987-1993) was a youth group formed by Morales at El Puente Community Center in order to educate the community on environmental issues and combat health hazards in the immediate area of Brooklyn. This is a mixed media...
Dates: 1976-1993; Majority of material found within 1986-1993
Found in: Archives of the Puerto Rican Diaspora / José F. Morales The Toxic Avengers Collection

Muriel Pagán Escuela Bilingüe Collection

 Collection
Identifier: MSS 71
Abstract Muriel Pagán is the former director of Bilingual Education for the Division of Special Education within the New York City Board of Education. She was also the Assistant Principal from 1968 to 1979 at PS 25 in the Southeast Bronx, the first totally bilingual school in the United States Northeast region. Throughout the years, Pagán saved many documents pertaining to her professional career as educator and a pioneer of the bilingual programs in New York City, including P.S. 25 – The Bilingual...
Dates: 1968-1989; Majority of material found within 1970-1989
Found in: Archives of the Puerto Rican Diaspora / Muriel Pagán Escuela Bilingüe Collection

Lourdes Torres Papers

 Collection
Identifier: MSS 34
Abstract

Community activist, educator and organizer. Resource for understanding the role of Puerto Rican activists in the decades of the 1980s and 1990s, for examining the struggles for civil rights of the Puerto Rican community in New York, the history of the National Congress for Puerto Rican Rights and the Committee Against Fort Apache. Included are reports, flyers, letters and memoranda, press releases and news clippings, as well as photographs.

Dates: Majority of material found within 1970s-1990s; 1967-2000
Found in: Archives of the Puerto Rican Diaspora / Lourdes Torres 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.

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  • Silberman School of Social Work at Hunter College
    2180 Third Avenue, Room 120
  • New York, NY 10035
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