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Dear Primos and friends:

The May issue features Cesar Chavez and a series of articles revealing the impact that Chavez' life has made in the United States. At a meeting of the Society of Hispanic Historical and Ancestral Research, Judge Rick Aguirre, and his wife Linda, who is related to Cesar Chavez, shared the facts of Cesar's family. They were pioneers, early Arizona US Government Land Grant recipients. Most Americans would assume that Cesar was an immigrant field worker. I did. Their family history research changed my perspective.

More and more historians, educators, and family history researchers are uncovering facts that are changing their personal perspectives. Two weeks ago, I did a presentation on writing your family history at a large Family History Fair (about 25 instructors). The theme was "Beyond Genealogy." Querying those in attendance, all expressed a desire to share with their children and grandchildren to increase understanding and respect for their own families, to discover inherent strengths and talents.

Building a base of family stories will help us prepare and encourage us in the effort to bring about a National Museum of the American Latino.
Featured in May is a cluster of articles concerning the status of the Museum. Hope you feel the need to start writing your family history.

Twenty years ago, while attending an event in Washington, D.C., I was asked matter of fact by a non-Hispanic, "Will your folk really, really have anything to put into a Museum?" I say we do . . .

Table of Contents

CESAR CHAVEZ
Cuban Actor Tony Plana joins campaign for National Cesar Chavez Day Ex-Braceros Win Demand by Martha Zarate Oración de la lucha del campesino/Prayer of the Farm Workers' Struggle by Jesus Rafael Gonzalez En celebración de César E. Chávez by Jesus Rafael Gonzalez Cesar Chavez: A Solemn Procession César E. Chávez National Monument Welcomed César Is Not a Museum Piece by Kent Paterson Comments About Cesar Chavez movie
Cuento: A Proud Primo . . . Joe Merino
The Cesar Chavez Film in Perspective: Hollywood vs History Pelicula Sobre Cesar Chavez NATIONAL MUSEUM OF THE AMERICAN LATINO What is the Status of the National Museum of the American Latino? by Mimi Lozano National Museum Of The American Latino Could Be Threatened By Immigrant Museum by Tony Castro Latino Americans Wins the coveted Peabody Award by John Valadez Comments by Dr. Refugio Rochin, Jose Antonio Lopez, Delia Gonzalez Huffman Latino Museum plans in limbo. Site to become “pop-up” space by Sam Sturgis How likely is a national Latino museum? by Steve Linan Latinos and Afro-Latino Legacy in the United States: history, culture, and issues of identity.
by Refugio I. Rochin, Ph.D.

UNITED STATES
USA statistics for the Year 1910
La Gran Voz del Pueblo
Cuento: My Turn by Daisy Wanda Garcia
Cuento: Amelia Diaz's amazing life, Shared by Gil Chavez
Cuento: Part 2, Highly Political Organizations Nervously Studied,
My Work in USAID By José M. Peña Teaching Tolerance Latino Civil Rights Timeline, 1903 to 2006
NCLR: A Packed Agenda: CASA Project Day
NCLR: July 18-22 National Conference, Los Angeles

HISTORIC TIDBITS
Benito Juarez
Mexican revolutionary captures San Antonio, April 1, 1813 The Battle of San Jacinto, March 13, 1836 US Troops March on Monterrey, Mexico, Sept 21-24, 1846 One of the biggest gun battles in the history of the American West, Laredo, Texas, 1886 Mexican-descent citizens originating in Early Texas, not descended from immigrants.
History of Gun Control as shared by the Black Chamber of Commerce Fifty years later, Latinos still fighting for civil rights by Victoria DeFrancesco Soto

HISPANIC LEADERS
Gabriel García Márquez, Nobel laureate writer, dies aged 87 Louis Zapata, First Mexican American Elected to Fort Worth Council, dies at 79 Dr. Salomon Hernandez Flores, Educator, died at 79 in 2007 LATINO PATRIOTS OC Sentinel, dedicated to Veterans
YouTube: Lita De Los Santos had 8 brothers serving in WWII Vietnam Wall, access names
YouTube: Welcome Home to Vietnam Veterans The Wall Borinqueneers Congressional Gold Medal Alliance Dutch Families have adopted American WWII Soldiers More Latinos Merit Medal of Honor by Rick Leal World War II POW Jose Holguin WW II Poster, Sent by Rosa Parachou World War II generation of Mexican-Americans made huge strides in civil rights movement
by Maggie Rivas-Rodriguez
1,892 US Veterans Are Thought to Have Committed Suicide Since January 1,
2014

EARLY LATINO PATRIOTS
Order of Granaderos y Damas de Galvez, April 5, 2014 My Days as a Colonist / Soldier with Don Juan de Onate – Part 4 by Louis F. Serna

SURNAMES
The Spencer Family of England, Their Spanish Connection by John D.
Inclan

DNA
Using DNA Tests to Find Birth Families by Kimberly Powell Who was Joaquin Murrieta? The Real Zorro

FAMILY HISTORY
FamilySearch Blog and resources

EDUCATION
Create Change for Latino Community Through Technology, $500,000 Competition Center for Mexican American Studies Going to the Edge And Over the Cliff By Rodolfo F. Acuña Recordings of Latino Education Advocacy Days, 2014 LARED-L, the fastest growing Latino/Hispanic Listserv Network Civil Rights Summit
50 Years later, and still no Mexican American Studies courses in Texas Mexican American Studies, Other Cultures Now Electives in Texas Project MALES Uvalde naming school for activist who sued district by Elaine Ayala

CULTURE
El Santo Nino de Atocha by Louis F. Serna Homegrown Healing by Annette Sandoval Voices de la Luna: A Quarterly Poetry & Arts Magazine, Volume 6, Number
3
Sabine Ulibarri: The Linguistic Gladiator by Ray John de Aragon Teacher Materials for The Linguistic Gladiator prepared by Rosa Maria Calles

BOOKS AND PRINT MEDIA
Voices: The American Dream through Our Books by Tony Díaz The Jews in the Caribbean, edited by Jane S. Gerber The Forgotten River by Doreen Carvajal, now in Spanish A Thousand White Women by Jim Fergus Chicano Literature: Shaping the Canon by Felipe de Ortego y Gasca, Ph.D.
Mexican American/Chicano Literature: Roots & Traditions by Felipe de Ortego y Gasca, Ph.D.

ORANGE COUNTY, CA
May 10: SHHAR Monthly, "The Serna Family and Your Family in New Mexico"
Cuento: Our Sister Katie by Albert Vela, Ph.D.
May 1: Murals of Brotherhood Project, and the Universidad Michona de San Nicolas de Hidalgo.
60th Anniversary of Brown v. Board of Education March is Women's History Month May 28, 2014: 14th Annual Awards & Scholarship Luncheon Smithsonian Journey Stories exhibit to be at the Heritage Museum of Orange County,
October 5, 2014 - November 16, 2014

LOS ANGELES COUNTY
May 25, 2014: Romeria Del Rocio
UCLA Chicano Studies Research Center Newsletter

CALIFORNIA
The Birth of California's Day of the Teacher by Dina Martin Association of Mexican American Educators California Teachers: Inspiring our students, strengthening our communities
Cuento: The Pioneer Cowboy, Manuel de los Santos Coy from Texas to South Dakota
by Robert Garcia, Jr.
Sunday, May 4: Rancho Days Fiesta, Heritage Hill Historical Park Archive of Cesar Chavez, United Farm Worker unveiled Ask a Mexican by Gustavo Arellano

NORTHWESTERN, US
Three new names added to Washington State Medal of Honor Monument Washington State Honoring Three Medal of Honor recipients.
Washington state honors its Medal of Honor recipients

SOUTHWESTERN, US
Cuento: Sergeant Manuel Mendoza, Medal of Honor Arizona Recipient June 6-8th Annual Conference of the Genealogical Society of Hispanic America
Cuento: Amelia Diaz's amazing life

TEXAS
Cuento: 1st Mexican-American to graduate from Texas Medical school:
Cayetano E. Barrera, II
Col. Jose Francisco Ruiz, Texas Patriot by Frank Galindo Clotilde P. Garcia Tejano Book Prize Happy First Texas Independence Day (April 6, 1813) by José Antonio López Texas State Historical Society
Cuento: Oral and written histories of families from the Rio Grande Valley by Aaron Nelsen
Cuento: Adina De Zavala, November 28, 1861–March 1, 1955
Cuento: María Teresa Márquez, pioneering Chicana Humanities Librarian
Cuento: The Return of Chicano Film Pioneer, Efraín Gutiérrez By Melissa del Bosque

MIDDLE AMERICA
Guide to League of United Latin American Citizens, Council 10 (Davenport, Iowa) records The University of Iowa Libraries, Iowa’s Woman’s Archives

EAST COAST
Cuento: Rescuing a Kidnapped Girl by Joe Sanchez
AFRICAN-AMERICAN
Black history museum starting to take shape in Washington
SEPHARDIC
In Spain, a Family Reunion, Centuries Later by Doreen Carvajal
The Sephardic Awakening in America by ell F. Sanchez, Ph.D.

ARCHAEOLOGY
Pre-inca tomb discovered in the house where Mario Vargas Llosa born by
Hannah Vickers
Tomb of an Aztec emperor

MEXICO
Genealogia de algunas familias establecidas en Leon, Gto.
Hidalgo Missions: Tlahuelilpa
Families of Saltillo, Coahuila, Mexico, Volume Four by Crispin Rendon
" Centauro del Norte " General de División Francisco Villa. por Tte.
Corl. Ricardo Palmerín.
Bautismo y Defunción del Pbro. Lic. Don Andres Davis
Familias de Montemorelos, N.L.
Fallecio Conde de Peñalba Don Garcia de Baldez Osorio
Matheo Valdes Ossorio Urrutia Vergara Flores y Valdes

CENTRAL/SOUTH AMERICA
La biblioteca del Obispo por Angel Custodio
Rebollo Ciudades Perdidas, Selva de Honduras
Cuento: Ecuador, Eager To Charm The World by Diane Alverio
Peruvian Artist Ernesto Apomayta

PHILIPPINES
Two Cuentos: by Eddie AAA Calderón, Ph.D.
The USA & How Can and Do We Describe this Country?
The Quiereme Mucho article: A Revisit

SPAIN
Y la vida sigue…por Angel Custodio Rebollo
La Heroica Defensa De Castelnuovo en 1539 José Antonio Crespo
Basada en hechos reales por Angel Custodio Rebollo

INTERNATIONAL
Dr. George Lombardi who treated Mother Teresa in the 80's in Calcutta
The World’s Eleven Largest Nations
UK: Our New Sharia Law by Douglas Murray