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What It Means To Be Puerto Rican at Lorain Festival
Rona Proudfoot chronicles the 2009 Lorain International Festival spotlight on Puerto Ricans. Speakers discuss citizenship and history from 1898 to the present, recount Lorain’s Puerto Rican migration and community building, including housing, churches, and political gains.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lorain
Washington
Cous HS Dida A DeLuca
Celecames Heenan
Hispanic Roundtable
Feliciano
Los Americanos
U.S
United States
Puerto Rico
Commonwealth
Lorain National Tube
Philadelphia
Pennsylvania
Rivera
Pedro Castillo
Cleveland
Castillo
Vine Avenue
National Tube
la Colonia de Lorain
Ohio
el Campito
Evilio Rosario
Cleveland Indians
al Rosen
Tony Krasienko