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Nonprofit organizations

 Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings

Found in 6 Collections and/or Records:

CHARAS/El Bohío Cultural and Community Center Records

 Collection
Identifier: MSS 233
Abstract

The CHARAS/El Bohío Cultural and Community Center Records are an important resource for studying Puerto Ricans and other Latino communities in the Lower East Side (known as Loisaida), New York from 1970 to 2010. The collection consists of correspondence, memoranda, minutes, photographs, flyers, clippings, posters, proposals, reports, financial statements, and artifacts.

Dates: 1965-2010; Majority of material found within 1970s-1990s
Found in: Archives of the Puerto Rican Diaspora / CHARAS/El Bohío Cultural and Community Center Records

Gloria Quiñones Papers

 Unprocessed Material — Multiple Containers
Identifier: 2016-010
Dates: 1970s-2016; Majority of material found within 1995-2010
Found in: Archives of the Puerto Rican Diaspora

Juan E. Hernández Cruz Collection

 Collection
Identifier: MSS 38
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...
Dates: 1958-1982
Found in: Archives of the Puerto Rican Diaspora / Juan E. Hernández Cruz Collection

Diana Ramírez de Arellano Papers

 Collection
Identifier: MSS 63
Abstract

Author of numerous books of poetry and literary criticism and a Poet Laureate of Puerto Rico. Distinguished academic and founder of the Ateneo Puertorriqueño de Nueva York. Collection documents cultural expression among Puerto Ricans in New York City, artistic and literary activities, and the work and history of the Ateneo Puertorriqueño de Nueva York. Consists of letters, minutes, articles, books, programs, newspaper clippings, audiotapes and phonograph records.

Dates: Majority of material found within 1960s-1980s; 1947-1997
Found in: Archives of the Puerto Rican Diaspora / Diana Ramírez de Arellano Papers

Tina Ramírez Ballet Hispánico Papers

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: MSS 228
Scope and Contents The Tina Ramírez papers are divided into three series. In addition to information regarding Ramírez’s career and the history and inner workings of the Ballet Hispánico during her time as its artistic director from 1970 to 2009, the collection contains instructional materials and reflections upon dance programs and routines, literature surrounding dance and performance, and original research regarding dance and ballet.Given her thirty-year tenure as artistic director at the...
Dates: Majority of material found within 1970-2009; 1930-2009
Found in: Archives of the Puerto Rican Diaspora / Tina Ramírez Ballet Hispánico Papers

Tina Ramírez Papers

 Unprocessed Material
Identifier: 2009-029
Dates: Majority of material found within 1970-2009; 1930-2009
Found in: Archives of the Puerto Rican Diaspora


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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