Mexicans come to California to support seasonal plantings working in US government rural rehabilitation camps
North to California, migrant works stack their cars with children and life's possessions to work the farm crops of fertile valleys.
Three young men play hand ball against a red wall under a billboard in Spanish Harlem neighborhood, New York, New York, mid 1980s.
Man and child crossing a street in the Second Ward, a Chicano neighborhood in El Paso, Texas, July, 1972. Image courtesy National Archives. .
Teenagers in the Second Ward, a primarily Chicano neighborhood in El Paso, Texas, June, 1972. Image courtesy National Archives. .
Woman in her car in the Second Ward, a primarily Chicano neighborhood close to the Mexico border in El Paso, Texas, 1972. Image courtesy National...
Members of the Chingalings, a Puerto Rican motorcycle gang, work on a bike in the group's clubhouse in a rent-free, and city-owned, clubhouse in the...
Photograph of a mature Puerto Rican woman using a sewing machine in the Everglades Needlework Factory, she is using the machine to work a piece of...
Laura Martinez-Herring, Miss USA, is the first Mexican-American and naturalized US citizen to win the title.
Group of Cuban refugees in Manhattan watch President Kennedy delivering a speech on television. Kennedy described a seven-point program directed at...
August 1948. Children under a shower on a play street in Spanish town East 101 St. Near Lexington Ave. This is the Spanish and Puerto Rican section...
Los Angeles, CA: Within two blocks of the Los Angeles City Hall is the Mexican quarter. Recently it has taken on the aspect of old Mexico from where...
New York: An employee mans the counter at "La Marqueta," a five-block-long Spanish American marketplace situated underneath the Penn Central tracks...
Los Angeles, California-ORIGINAL CAPTION READS: Within two blocks of the Los Angeles City Hall is the Mexican quarter. Recently it has taken on the...
New York, NY: 45th Anniversary of the granting of U. S. Citizenship to Puerto Rico. Central Park mall. Photo shows Gladys Gomez of 685 Peck St.,...
New York: Alfred Rodriquez of the Grand Street Settelement house comtemplates Time and Space represented by the Tic Toy Clock that keeps time and can...
Almost ten thousand new citizens, predominantly Hispanic, pledge allegiance to the United States of America during a naturalization ceremony at...
Los Angeles, California- Los Angeles civic leaders, in a drive to combat juvenile delinquency, converted a deserted night club into the Club Los...
San Juan, Puerto Rico- At San Juan's Isla Grande Airport, migratory farm workers are shown boarding one of the special planes which took them to the...
Group of braceros, migrant Mexican workers allowed into the United States for a limited time, harvest a field of strawberries in the Salinas Valley.
Miami, Florida: Jose Rodriguez, who has been working in Brooklyn, N.Y., is taking his family, all 31 members there to live in a 10-room apartment he...
Film star Leo Carrillo rides on a bucking horse on August 19, 1938. He is taking part in the parade for the "Old Spanish Days" fiesta in Santa...
Group of Puerto Rican children gather on street corner for ice cream, New York, New York, early to mid 20th century.
Puerto Rican boy carrying a stalk of bananas on his shoulders, near San Lorenzo, Eastern Central Region, Puerto Rico, circa 1955.
Spanish Revival property with a white stucco facade and a red clay tile roof in San Juan, Puerto Rico, circa 1965.
View of residential and commercial buildings in the Santurce barrio of San Juan, Puerto Rico, circa 1965.
Cars parked on a narrow street in Old San Juan, a historic area of the city of San Juan in the barrio of San Juan Antiguo, Puerto Rico, circa 1968.
Child looks at murals depicting the Latino Immigrant experience in the Mission District, in San Francisco, California, November 24, 2011. .
Local children enjoy a soccer game in MacArthur Park, a predominantly Latino neighborhood in Los Angeles, California, May 06, 2011.
Residents purchase Mexican food from a food truck in Commerce, a once white middle-class and now predominantly working class Latino neighborhood in...
Woman carries flowers as she rides the bus in Beverly Hills, California, May 08, 2011. Los Angeles Bus line 302, which follows Sunset Boulevard to...
Pedestrians visit a swap meet near MacArthur Park, a predominantly Latino neighborhood, in Los Angeles, California, May 06, 2011. .
Billboard featuring Mexican ranchera musician Vincente Fernándeza advertising Budweiser beer, East Los Angeles, California, May 10, 2011. .
Young Latina girl looks at an American flag during a May 1st rally on Wilshire Boulevard, in Los Angeles, California, May 1st, 2006. Latinos are...
American broadcast journalist Geraldo Rivera , of WABC-TV's Channel 7 New York, interviews an unidentified man, New York, New York, early 1970s.
Man carrying a large Puerto Rican flag during the Puerto Rican Day parade, on 5th Avenue , New York, New York, June 14, 2009.
Costumed parade participant smiles & tips her hat, prior to the start of the Puerto Rican Day parade, on West 44th Street , New York, New York, June...
View of a woman and a child , during the Hispanic Day Parade on 5th Avenue, New York, New York, October 12, 2008.
American actor Jesse Borrego, wearing a sleeveless grey t-shirt, with a co-star, who wears a red shirt with the sleeves rolled up, who has his arm...
Radio DJ Renan Almendarez Coello, known as El Cucuy inside studio at La Raza station, May 22, 2006 in Los Angeles, California.
Prostyle and Julia Beverly attend Chino's birthday party at The Club at Firestone in Orlando, Florida on October 28, 2005.
View of costumed parade participants, prior to the start of the Colombian Day Parade, on 69th Street in Queens' Jackson Heights neighborhood, New...
As onlookers watch, two people hold hands as they dance on the boardwalk at Orchard Beach in the Bronx, New York, New York, summer 1983.
Watched by onlookers, unidentified breakdancers perform during a dance party at the Police Athletic League Webster Center in the Bronx, New York, New...
View of DJ Willie 'Dynamite' Fratacci as he plays records during a dance party at the Police Athletic League Lynch Community Center in the Bronx, New...
Watched by onlookers, an unidentified breakdancer performs during a dance party at the Police Athletic League Lynch Community Center in the Bronx,...
As onlookers watch, people dance on the boardwalk at Orchard Beach in the Bronx, New York, New York, summer 1984.
An agricultural worker and his wife with their eight children, who live in three small rooms, in the Mexican section of San Diego, California, June...
View of marchers as they celebrated Nicaraguan independence in the Mission District, San Francisco, California, July 19, 1980.
