Chronology for Hispanics in the United States of America

Antonia Novello is appointed the first women and first Hispanic U.S. surgeon general under Bush, and, in 1993 Ellen Ochoa becomes the first ...

Latino Americans: Timeline - PBS

1565. Saint Augustine brings the first European settlement to the United States, introducing Catholicism and the Spanish language in Florida.

Chronology for Hispanics in the United States of America - Refworld

Chronology for Hispanics in the United States of America ; Jan 24, 1994, The Census Bureau reports that the net worth of the median Latino ...

Hispanic History ‑ Timeline, Culture & Month

Hispanic Heritage Month is an annual celebration of the history and culture of the U.S. Latin and Hispanic communities. The event, which spans from ...

Latino Civil Rights Timeline, 1903 to 2006 - Learning for Justice

1941 The U.S. government forms the Fair Employment Practices Committee to handle cases of employment discrimination. Latino workers file more than one-third of ...

History of Hispanic and Latino Americans in the United States

According to the United States Census of 1790, which was the first census of the whole United States, there were 20,000 people of Hispanic origin living in the ...

Timeline of Latino civil rights in the United States - Wikipedia

Contents · 1 American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU); 1.3. · 2 The Confederacion de Uniones Obreras Mexicanas; 1.3. · 3 The League of United Latin American Citizens ...

Latinos & Latinas in the US | National Museum of the American Latino

The Latino population in the United States is over 60 million, making up 18.9% of the total population, according to the U.S. Census Bureau.

Timeline - A Latinx Resource Guide: Civil Rights Cases and Events ...

A Latinx Resource Guide: Civil Rights Cases and Events in the United States · Introduction · Timeline · 1911: Meeting of the Mexicanist Congress · 1917: Jones- ...

Hispanics in the United States: Origins and Destinies

Today, a third of the Hispanic population is foreign-born, and another third consists of a growing second generation of US-born children of immigrants. And the ...

Hispanic Heritage and History in the United States | NEH-Edsitement

Since 1988, the U.S. Government has set aside the period from September 15 to October 15 as National Hispanic Heritage Month to honor the many contributions ...

Hispanic Americans | The United States Army

Photo courtesy of U.S. Army Center of Military History. World War I. 1914-1918. In May 1917, two months after legislation granting United States citizenship to ...

Unveiling hidden stars: remarkable Latino contributions ... - UnidosUS

The inclusion of the Latino experience and contributions in U.S. history is not only a crucial step in building a more inclusive story and ...

Hispanic New World Timelines | Colleen Robledo Greene

General Timeline · 1565: 1st permanent settlement founded in present day U.S., St. · 1598: Oñate established the first Spanish colony in New Mexico · 1610: Santa ...

Census History: Counting Hispanics | Pew Research Center

Hispanics are the nation's largest minority group, having surpassed African Americans in number in 2001. The growth of the Hispanic population ...

The Columbia History of Latinos in the United States Since 1960

Latinos are now the largest so-called minority group in the United States—the result of a growth trend that began in the mid-twentieth century—and the ...

Hispanic Americans | Definition, History, People, & Population

More than half of all Hispanic Americans are of Mexican ancestry. Some of them descended from settlers in parts of the United States that were once part of ...

Latino & Hispanic American History

Hispanic and Latino Americans have a long and rich history in the United States, captured in such wide-ranging places from the 17th-century Palace of the ...

Our America: A Hispanic History of the United States - Edelman

Hispanics have been part of this country from the beginning as in fact many parts of what is now the U.S. originally belonged to Mexico. There ...

Latino Immigration

The history of the U.S. is filled with stories of immigrants who have built our country. Learn about Latino immigration here.