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National Hispanic Heritage Month is a monthlong celebration in the United States...
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Women dancing at a Cinco de Mayo celebration in Los Angeles.
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Children leading the procession during a Las Posadas celebration at St. Peter Claver...
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U.S. Border Patrol agents processing a group of Central American migrants who entered...
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Conquest of the Aztec capital of Tenochtitlán by Hernán Cortés, 1521.
Jay I. Kislak Collection—Rare Book and Special Collections Division/Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.
Attack on the Castle Chapultepec, print by Nathaniel Currier, 1848.
Library of Congress, Washington, D.C. (file no. LC-USZC2-1948)
Gen. Pancho Villa (centre right) with other Mexican revolutionaries at Hacienda de...
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Mexican migrant worker, Imperial Valley, California, 1937; photograph by Dorothea...
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Seventh Avenue in Ybor City, the Latin quarter of Tampa, Florida.
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Workers at the Tierra del Lago Cigar Co., Tampa, Florida, 1909.
National Child Labor Committee collection, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division (LC-DIG-nclc-04508)
U.S. Pres. Barack Obama (right) and Cuban Pres. Raúl Castro making televised addresses...
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Cesar Chavez leading a protest at a supermarket in Seattle, 1969.
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Crowd of mostly Latino demonstrators in Los Angeles protesting proposed changes in...
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Hispanic population by state in the United States, 2000.
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Percent increase in U.S. Hispanic population by county, 1990–2000.
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