Forgotten Latino History

While success has many fathers and failure is an orphan, bureaucrat-ese, it turns out, sometimes has one proud author. During her long care...

  A year after Sweatt v. Painter, the U.S District Court for the District of Kansas heard Oliver Brown's suit against the Topeka School ...

  Mexico was not the only Latin American country that did not welcome black soldiers during World War II. When the U.S Navy assigned 250 Afr...

  LULAC leader Alfonso Perales ... believed that Mexicans ought to be entitled to rights and privileges routinely denied to African American...

[Colin] Powell felt the sting of southern racism firsthand after he received orders to leave Birmingham and report once again to Fort Be...

  Examples abound in Mexican history of laws and circulars designed to prevent the immigration or settlement of Africans in Mexico. In 1833 ...

Ms. [Linda] Chavez's ancestors emigrated to what is now New Mexico from Spain in the 17th century, and have been primarily English speak...