Puerto Rico -- History -- Autonomy and independence movements
Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Found in 9 Collections and/or Records:
Juanita Arocho Papers
Collection
Identifier: MSS 46
Abstract
Community activist and journalist. Collection contains correspondence, articles, photographs, and printed matter pertaining to the participation of Juanita Arocho in the Masons and the movement for the independence of Puerto Rico.
Dates:
1940 - 1994; Majority of material found within 1960 - 1994
Found in:
Archives of the Puerto Rican Diaspora
Cerro Maravilla Hearings VHS Video Recordings Collection
Unprocessed Material — Box 1: [Barcode: CMHVVR_001]
Identifier: 2000-008
Dates:
March-May 1992
Found in:
Archives of the Puerto Rican Diaspora
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
Jesús Colón Papers
Collection — Reel 1-29: [Barcode: JeCo_m1-29]
Identifier: MSS 1
Abstract
The Jesús Colón Papers are a significant contribution to the study of Puerto Rican history and especially to the reconstruction of Puerto Rican community history in New York. They support research on such topics as organizational development, political participation among Puerto Ricans in New York, employment, discrimination, and the labor movement. There are letters, notes, drafts of published and unpublished works, reports, clippings, and photographs with a majority of the papers...
Dates:
Majority of material found within 1920-1970; 1901-1974
Found in:
Archives of the Puerto Rican Diaspora
Joaquín Colón-López Papers
Collection
Identifier: MSS 48
Abstract
Joaquín Colón-López was a Puerto Rican activist and writer, brother to writer Jesús Colón. He also co-founded Club Democrático de Brooklyn with J.V. Alonso. The Joaquín Colón-Lopez Papers consists of documents and 262 photographs dating from 1917 to 1947. Included among the documents are biographical information, articles, and a typewritten manuscript of Colón-Lopez’s book, Pioneros Puertorriqueños en Nueva York 1917-1947. This manuscript was submitted by Centro and published by Arte Público...
Dates:
1917-1947
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
Pedro Albizu Campos at Harvard University Collection
Unprocessed Material — Box 1: [Barcode: PACa_001]
Identifier: 2022-008
Dates:
1913-1954
Found in:
Archives of the Puerto Rican Diaspora
SUNY Buffalo Puerto Rican Studies Program Educational Resources Collection
Collection
Identifier: MSS 200
Scope and Contents
This collection consists of diverse educational resources available to instructors and faculty to be used in the classroom or Media Center. There are eight audiocassettes with talks and interviews to three prominent Puerto Rican printmakers artists from DIVEDCO: Rafael Tufino, Antonio Maldonado and Carlos Raquel Rivera. It includes also eight Oral History of Latina Women Poets and Writers among others writer Nicholsa Mohr and poet Susana Cabañas. Two videocassettes delving with ethnic...
Dates:
1974-1998
Found in:
Archives of the Puerto Rican Diaspora
José E Velázquez Papers
Collection
Identifier: MSS 140
Abstract
The José E. Velázquez Papers offer a glimpse into the work of a Puerto Rican activist who devoted himself to advocating for Puerto Rican independence and the democratic rights of Puerto Ricans in the United States as well as racial and class liberation through his involvement with numerous revolutionary organizations active in the 1970s, namely the U.S. branch of the Partido Socialista Puertorriqueño. The collection includes correspondence, clippings, flyers, letters, memoranda, minutes,...
Dates:
Majority of material found within 1970-1984; 1950-1999
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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