Hispanic and Latino Americans facts for kids

Hispanic and Latino Americans are Americans who are descendants of people from Spain and Latin America.

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  Storefronts at Lexington Avenue and 116th Street at East Harlem New York City, also known as Spanish Harlem or "El Barrio"

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  San Miguel Chapel, built in 1610 in Santa Fe, is the oldest church structure in the United States.

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  Intermediate level international-style Latin dancing at the 2006 MIT ballroom dance competition. A judge stands in the foreground.

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  Eva Longoria's mtDNA belongs to the Haplogroup A2, possibly making her a direct descendant of a Native American woman, a Mayan from the territory of Mexico long before it was Mexico.

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  Actress Alexis Bledel is a White Hispanic of Argentine origin and Scottish, German and Scandinavian heritage. Bledel grew up in a Spanish speaking household and did not learn English until she began school.

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  Daniella Alonso her mother is Puerto Rican, and her father is Peruvian, of native and Japanese descent.

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  Zoe Saldana at the 82nd Academy Awards (2010)

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  Lauro Cavazos, US Secretary of Education from August 1988 to December 1990.

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  Spanish speakers in the United States by counties in 2000

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  In 2007 University of Texas at El Paso was ranked the number one graduate engineering school for Latinos.

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  Flyers at Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport wearing facemasks on March 6th, 2020 as the COVID-19 coronavirus spreads throughout the United States. Disproportionate numbers of cases have been observed among Black and Latino populations,

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  Rally to end family separation in Cleveland, Ohio

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  Museum of Latin American Art

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  Spanish colonial architecture in Los Angeles

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  José Horacio Gómez, Archbishop of Los Angeles.

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  Maria Cardona hosts the talk show ¡MARIA! on El Rey Network.

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  Mexican food has become part of the mainstream American market just as Italian food did so decades before.

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  A Quinceañera after a Catholic Mass, celebrating a daughter's 15th birthday, common among Hispanic families

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  Mariah Carey's father was of African American and Afro-Venezuelan descent, while her mother is of Irish descent.

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  Rosa Salazar is of Peruvian and French descent.

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  Camila Cabello was born in Cuba. She moved between Havana and Mexico City before locating to Miami at age 5.

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  Genesis Rodriguez actress and model her father, José Luis Rodríguez, actor and singer known by the nickname "El Puma".

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  Sunny Hostin American lawyer, columnist, journalist, and television host. Hostin was born to a Puerto Rican mother, and an African American, her maternal grandfather was of Sephardic Jewish descent

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  The Congressional Hispanic Caucus, circa 1984

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  Delegate Joseph Marion Hernández of the Florida Territory, elected in 1822, the first Hispanic or Latino American to serve in the United States Congress in any capacity.

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  U.S. President George W. Bush announces Alberto Gonzales nomination as the Attorney General

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  Ileana Ros-Lehtinen became the first Cuban American Latina in congress and first Latina chair of the Congressional Hispanic Conference.

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  Susana Martinez, first elected Latina Governor in the United States.]

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  Debbie Mucarsel-Powell first South American immigrant member of Congress elected in 2018.

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  Maria Salazar, a journalist, broadcast television anchor and Republican House Member from Florida. She is of Cuban heritage.

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  Julie Chavez Rodriguez the granddaughter of American labor leader, Cesar Chavez and American labor activist Helen Fabela Chávez will become the director of the White House Office of Intergovernmental Affairs, when Joe Biden assumes office on January 20, 2021.

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  Desi Arnaz actor, musician, bandleader, comedian and film and television producer and generally credited as the innovators of the syndicated rerun

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  Jennifer Lopez, a Nuyorican.

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  Rita de Acosta Lydig

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  Real estate developer Jorge M. Pérez

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  Carlos Gutierrez

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  Catherine Cortez Masto, first Latina U.S. Senator

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  George Santayana was a philosopher, essayist, poet, and novelist.

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  José Díaz-Balart

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  Major General Luis R. Esteves, the first Hispanic to graduate from the United States Military Academy ("West Point")

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  David Farragut, first full admiral in the US Navy

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  Pedro del Valle – first Hispanic to reach the rank of Lieutenant General

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  Modesto Cartagena, most decorated Puerto Rican soldier in history

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  [Richard E. Cavazos]] first Hispanic four-star general.

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  Luis Walter Álvarez was awarded the Nobel Prize of Physics in 1968.

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  Joseph Acaba, Puerto Rican-American astronaut

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  Tony Romo, Mexican American quarterback for the Dallas Cowboys

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  Alex Rodriguez

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  Puerto Rican NBA Allstar Carmelo Anthony

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  Bocanegra with the United States national soccer team in 2010

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  Protest against HR 4437 in Columbus, Ohio

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  Dolores Huerta in 2009. Huerta has received numerous awards for her community service and advocacy for workers', and women's rights. She was the first Latina inducted into the National Women's Hall of Fame, in 1993.

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  Chicago Picasso as seen at Christkindlmarkt