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The material gives an account of how this racial group suffered because of discrimination, famine, natural disasters, among others. Thus, call for an immediate response to salvage their situation.

An audio tape of an interview carried out with a business person whose family moved from Puerto Rico to New York City. This audio tape is important because it shows the factors that were pushing people to come to the United States mainland and…

Photograph taken between 1949 and 1950 of Puerto Rican migrant workers in barracks where they slept in New York City. The photograph is physical evidence of the dilapidated conditions in which Puerto Rican workers in New York had to tolerate. It…

Newspaper article “Puerto Rican Nationalists Shoot Congressmen.” This article from the New York Times reports an incident in 1954 where three nationalists shot congressmen in Washington.

Poster of National Conference of Puerto Rican Women planned conference of 1979. The poster is a reminder of the unity and development of Puerto Rican women who settled in New York after the world war.

Photograph of Puerto Rican civil rights demonstration in New York City, 1967. The image has demonstrators waving flags and placards demonstrating for minority rights. The item helps in telling the story of civil rights struggle for Puerto Ricans in…