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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Aug 06, 2001
Page
3
Nearly one fifth of school age children speak a language other than English at home while 14 percent had similar bilingual use in 1990. About 30.5 million foreign born residents live in the United States, with most immigrants arriving from Mexico.
New census sample of 700000 shows rising immigration and a larger Hispanic population at 35 million, rivaling blacks as the largest minority. It highlights multilingual education needs, English proficiency debates, and Mexico-origin foreign born totals estimated at 8.8 million with about 7 million illegal entrants nationwide.
The Southern Christian Leadership Convention convoked in Montgomery to resolve leadership questions surrounding Martin Luther King III. Jesse Jackson arrived to back King as the conference runs through Wednesday with workshops on voting rights and reparations and a tone of revival after the 1950s and 1960s era.
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