Category Archives: Northeast

Adlai Stevenson for President, 1956

Copy of Spanish language pro-Stevenson campaign circular issued by a Puerto Rican and Spanish support committee in New York in 1956. Continue reading

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Frank Sinatra, Latinos, and Civil Rights

Frank Sinatra’s “The House I Live In,” served as an anthem of the multicultural, post-World War II left. Puerto Rican and Mexican American groups showed the 1945 short movie by the same name to their members as part of a larger campaign to promote racial, ethnic, and religious tolerance. Continue reading

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Albert Moreau, Early Communist Party Candidate

Albert Moreau, an Argentine-born Communist, provided the first radical Latino voice in the electoral arena in the Northeast when he ran for the state assembly in New York in 1929. Continue reading

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