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CD Rom
Nemir Matos-Cintron, CDrom Developer
Puerto Ricans in the USA: A Hundred Years
Two-Volume CD Includes: Over a Dozen Digital Videos, Links to Relevant Web Sites, Historical and Rare Images, Music of the Migration, Original Documents, Oral Histories
Topics:
Splendid Little War: The Spanish American War and its impact on Cuba and Puerto Rico. Political cartoons and music of the period.
Pioneers: Two Puerto Rican literary figures from the 1920's and 30's: Jesús Colón, a community and labor organizer and writer, and Pura Belpré, the first Puerto Rican librarian in New York's Public Library system. Two original digital videos of their writings: Easy Job, Good Wages, from Jesús Colón's testimonial work, and the folk-tale Pérez and Martina , told by Pura Belpré herself.
Del Barco a la Guagua Aerea: Testimonies from Puerto Rican migrants who arrived in the United States either by steamship (such as the Porto Rico Line) before the "First Airborne Migration" or by airplane after 1947.
Airborne Migration: Planned or Spontaneous?: Historical digital videos from the Migration Division, promoting adjustment to life in the United States, and P'al Norte en Avión, original digital videos tracing the role of Operation Bootstrap in fostering the First Airborne Migration of Puerto Ricans to the United States.
Sudor de la Frente: Oral history of Puerto Rican workers from the Hotel and Garment Industries, Agriculture and Merchant Marine.
Diaspora: Interactive United States' map showing the Puerto Rican Diaspora by state. Includes links to websites with updated statistics on the Puerto Rican population in the United States.
Puerto Rican Day Parade: Detailed audio-visual chronology of the National Puerto Rican Parade from 1958 to the present, including the participation of the Yong Lords in the 1970's.
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