Monday, September 16, 2013

HISTORY - Latino Americans' 500-Year Legacy

"How Latino Americans Have Shaped the U.S. and Fought for Acceptance" PBS Newshour 9/13/2013

Excerpt

JUDY WOODRUFF (Newshour):  Now back to the U.S. for a significant, but often untold piece of our nation's history, how Latino Americans have shaped the country.

Our own Ray Suarez has written a book on the topic, and he sat down recently with Gwen Ifill.

Here's their conversation.

GWEN IFILL (Newshour):  From the first Spanish settlers who arrived in America decades before Plymouth rock or Jamestown, to the 53 million Hispanic Americans living here today, Latinos have helped form what is now the United States in ways we were often never taught in school.

From the Wild West to the civil rights movement to the current fight over comprehensive immigration reform, it has been a five-century journey, one that our own Ray Suarez (Newshour) chronicles in "Latino Americans:  The 500-Year Legacy That Shaped a Nation."

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