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Puerto Ricans -- Political activity -- New York (State) -- New York

 Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings

Found in 2 Collections and/or Records:

Dennis Rivera Papers

 Collection
Identifier: MSS 112
Abstract

Rivera was a labor leader, former president of New York's largest health care union, 1199 S.E.I.U. United Healthcare Workers East, and former chairman of the million-member health-care division of the Service Employees International Union. The collections include Rivera’s writings, photographs and negatives documenting his personal and professional lives, artifacts and bound volumes of 1199 News.

Dates: 1987-1996
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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