Paul Ortiz: Latinos Have Been An Integral Part Of This Nation's History | Gainesville.com

Paul Ortiz: Latinos Have Been An Integral Part Of This Nation's History | Gainesville.com Column: NBA still must deal with the race issue - Connecticut Post We have produced some of this generation's most brilliant writers, poets and historians including... More

Paul Ortiz: Latinos Have Been An Integral Part Of This Nation's History | Gainesville.com Column: NBA still must deal with the race issue - Connecticut Post We have produced some of this generation's most brilliant writers, poets and historians including Isabel Allende, Martin Espada, Junot Diaz, and Vicki Ruiz the first Latina president of the American Historical Association. Hispanic immigrants have brought traditions of mutual aid and social movement organizing to the United States that have strengthened this nation's commitments to equality and democracy. The majority of Latin American and Caribbean nations abolished slavery long before it ended in the United States and immigrants from those nations brought progressive ideas on race relations to this country that often clashed with white supremacy. In the 1850s, journalist Francisco P. Ramirez used his newspaper El Clamor Publico in Los Angeles to argue in favor of the abolition of slavery and the establishment of civil rights for Less