K-12 TLC Guide to Hispanic Heritage

Los Alamos National Laboratory

Hispanic Explorers, Pioneers and Astronauts

Central America & the Caribbean: K-12 TLC Guide South America: K-12 TLC Guide

Civil Rights/Human Rights: K-12 TLC Guide Immigration: K-12 TLC Guide Spanish Language: K-12 TLC Guide Spanish Missions: K-12 TLC Guide The United States: K-12 TLC Guide

Cultural Diversity/Multicultural Education: K-12 TLC Guide

Hispanic Heritage Month

Hispanic Heritage

Latin-American Art: K-12 TLC Guide.
Latin-American Civilizations: K-12 TLC Guide.

1946: MENDEZ V. WESTMINSTER SCHOOL DISTRICT: K-12 TLC Guide.

Blacks in Latin-American History, African American Registry.

Center for Latin American Studies, Georgetown University.
"Elimination of Racial Discrimination in the U.S.", United States Department of State:
- National Public Radio (audio):
  - Report #1: 9/21/00 (4:00).
  - Report #2: 9/22/00 (4:47).
Elián González, Six-Year-Old Cuban Refugee: K-12 TLC Case Study.

de Guillén Mariné, Eulalia Pérez: K-12 TLC Guide.

Hispanic Population of the United States, U.S. Census Bureau.
Hispanic Council for Reform and Educational Options (CREO).
Hispanic Online.
The Hispanic Reading Room, Library of Congress.
Hispanic Scholarship Fund Institute.
Hispanic Women's Network of Texas.
How Race is Lived in America, The New York Times (free userid required).

Indigenous People of Latin America, University of Texas.

Latin American Network Information Center, University of Texas.

League of United Latin American Citizens.

Official Web Site.

Texas State Historical Association.

National Hispanic Medical Association.

National Public Radio:

The New Americans, PBS.
The Philippine History Group of Los Angeles.
The Pledge of Allegiance En Espanol, Washington State Secretary of State.

Spanish Missions: K-12 TLC Guide.

U.S. Department of Education:

College is Attainable for Latin Americans (video).

Hispanic Heritage

American Artists: K-12 TLC Guide.
Artists: K-12 TLC Guide.
Latin-American Art: K-12 TLC Guide.
Spanish Missions: K-12 TLC Guide.

National Public Radio:

A Hard Knock Life for a Pinata Maker's Art.

Agudelo-Botero, Orlando: K-12 TLC Guide.

Baca, Judith: K-12 TLC Guide.

Basquiat, Jean-Michel: K-12 TLC Guide.

Campeche, José: K-12 TLC Guide.

Diaz, David: K-12 TLC Guide.
Garza, Carmen Lomas: K-12 TLC Guide.
Gonzalez, Maya Christina: K-12 TLC Guide.
Graham, Robert: K-12 TLC Guide.
Morales Yuyi:

Rodriguez, Narciso: K-12 TLC Guide.

Trevińo, Jesse: K-12 TLC Guide.

Hispanic Heritage

American Authors: K-12 TLC Guide.

National Association of Hispanic Journalists.
What Defines Latino Literature?. Smithsonian Magazine.

Ada, Alma Flor: K-12 TLC Guide.
Alarcón, Francisco X.: K_12 TLC Guide.
Alegria, Malin: K-12 TLC Guide.
Algarín, Miguel: K-12 TLC Guide.
Allende, Isabel: K-12 TLC Guide.
Alvarez, Julia: K-12 TLC Guide.
Anaya, Rudolfo: K-12 TLC Guide.
Ancona, George: K-12 TLC Guide.
Anzaldúa, Gloria: K-12 TLC Guide.
Baca, Jimmy Santiago: K-12 TLC Guide.
Balmaseda, Liz: K_12 TLC Guide.

Benítez, Sandra: K-12 TLC Guide.

Burciaga, Jose Antonio: K-12 TLC Guide.

de Burgos, Julia: K-12 TLC Guide.

Cepeda, Joe: K_12 TLC Guide.
Cervantes, Lorna Dee: K-12 TLC Guide.
Chávez, Denise: K-12 TLC Guide.
Cofer, Judith Ortiz: K-12 TLC Guide.

de Hostos, Eugenio María: K-12 TLC Guide.

Delacre, Lulu: K-12 TLC Guide.
Diaz, David: K-12 TLC Guide.
Díaz, Junot: K-12 TLC Guide.
Fornés, María Irene: K_12 TLC Guide.
Gallardo, Evelyn: K-12 TLC Guide.

Gonzalez, Corky: K-12 TLC Guide.

Gonzalez, Juan D.: K-12 TLC Guide.

Gonzalez, Maya Christina: K-12 TLC Guide.
Guy, Rosa: K-12 TLC Guide.
Herrera, Juan Felipe: K-12 TLC Guide.
Hijuelos, Oscar: K-12 TLC Guide.

Huddes, Quiara Alegria: K-12 TLC Guide.

Jiménez, Francisco: K-12 TLC Guide.

Kanellos, Nicolás: K-12 TLC Guide.
Márques, René: K-12 TLC Guide.
Martinez, Victor: K-12 TLC Guide.
Mohr, Nicholasa: K-12 TLC Guide.
Montes, Marisa: K-12 TLC Guide.
Mora, Pat: K-12 TLC Guide.
Morales Yuyi.
Nava, Gregory: K-12 TLC Guide.
Niggli, Josefina: K-12 TLC Guide.
Paredes, Américo: K-12 TLC Guide.
Perera, Hilda: K-12 TLC Guide.
Pérez, Selena Quintanilla: K-12 TLC Guide.
Pietri, Pedero: K-12 TLC Guide.
Santayana, George: K-12 TLC Guide.
Ramírez, Sara Estela: K-12 TLC Guide.

Rodriguez, Luis: K-12 TLC Guide.
Ryan, Pam Muńoz: K-12 TLC Guide.
Santeiro, Luis: K-12 TLC Guide.
Soto, Gary: K-12 TLC Guide.
Thomas, Piri: K-12 TLC Guide.

de Tió, Lola Rodríguez: K-12 TLC Guide.

Valdez, Luiz: K-12 TLC Guide.

Hispanic Heritage

American Business Leaders: K-12 TLC Guide.

Alvarez, Ralph.

Armario, Jose: K-12 TLC Guide.

Gutierrez, Carlos Miguel: K-12 TLC Guide.

Minaya, Omar: K-12 TLC Guide.

Quiroz, Lisa: K-12 TLC Guide.

Hispanic Heritage

K-12 TLC Guide to American Explorers, Pioneers and Astronauts.

Chang-Díaz, Franklin R.: K-12 TLC Guide.
Ochoa, Ellen: K-12 TLC Guide.

Hispanic Heritage

American Military Leaders: K-12 TLC Guide.

Farragut, David: K-12 TLC Guide.
Garcia, Hector Perez: K-12 TLV Guide
Seguín, Juan: K-12 TLC Guide.
Velázquez, Loreta Janeta: K-12 TLC Guide.

Texas

Notorious Americans: K-12 TLC Guide.

Cortez Lira, Gregorio: K-12 YLC Guide.

Hispanic Heritage

American Performing Artists: K-12 TLC Guide.

National Public Radio:
- Latin Stereotyping in Hollywood.
Aguilera, Christina: K-12 TLC Guide.
Alpert, Herb: K-12 TLC Guide.

Banderas, Antonio: K-12 TLC Guide.
Brooks-Bruzzese, James: K-12 TLC Guide.

Bujones, Fernando: K-12 TLC Guide.

Cantor, Andrés: K-12 TLC Guide.

Colón, Willie: K-12 TLC Guide.
Cruz, Celia: K-12 TLC Guide.

Dawson, Rosario: K-12 TLC Guide.

Domingo, Plácido: K-12 TLC Guide.
Estefan, Gloria: K-12 TLC Guide.

Feliciano, José: K-12 TLC Guide.

Fernández, Ruth: K-12 TLC Guide.
Ferrer, José: K-12 TLC Guide.

Jordan, Esteban "Steve": K-12 TLC Guide.

Julia, Raul: K-12 TLC Guide.

Lamas, Fernando: K-12 TLC Guide.

Leguizamo, John: K-12 TLC Guide.

Lopez, Israel: K-12 TLC Guide.
Manzano, Sonia: K-12 TLC Guide.
Martin, Ricky: K-12 TLC Guide.
Mata, Eduardo: K-12 TLC Guide.

Mendoza, Lydia: K-12 TLC Guide.

Montonya, Carlos: K-12 TLC Guide.
Moreno, Rita: K-12 TLC Guide.
Nava, Gregory: K-12 TLC Guide.

O'Brien, Soledad: K-12 TLC Guide.

Olmos, Edward James: K-12 TLC Guide.
Puente, Tito: K-12 TLC Guide.

Quinn, Anthony: K-12 TLC Guide.
Ramírez, Tina: K-12 TLC Guide.

Sanabria, Bobby: K-12 TLC Guide.

Santeiro, Luis: K-12 TLC Guide.
Saralegui, Cristina: K-12 TLC Guide.
Selena Quintanilla-Perez: K-12 TLC Guide.
Sheen, Martin: K-12 TLC Guide.
Spalding, Esperanza: K-12 TLC Guide.
Smits, Jimmy: K-12 TLC Guide.
Tańón, Olga: K-12 TLC Guide.
Zapata, Carmen: K-12 TLC Guide.

Hispanic Heritage

American Political Leaders: K-12 TLC Guide.
American Social Leaders: K-12 TLC Guide.

K-12 TLC Guide to Mexican Political Leaders.
K-12 TLC Guide to Puerto Rican Political Leaders.

Hispanic Americans in Congress, Library of Congress.
Hispanics in Congress, Fact Monster.

Baca, Judith: K-12 TLC Guide.
Badillo, Herman: K-12 TLC Guide.
Becerra, Xavier: K-12 TLC Guide.

Belvis, Segundo Ruiz: K-12 TLC Guide.
Benítez, Jaime: K-12 TLC Guide.
Bernardino, Minerva: K-12 TLC Guide.
Berriozabal, Manuel: K-12 TLC Guide. $Mathematician$

Betanzos, Amalia V.: K-12 TLC Guide.
Campos, Don Pedro Albizu: K-12 TLC Guide.
Chávez, César: K-12 TLC Guide.
Chávez-Thompson, Linda: K-12 TLC Guide.
Cisneros, Henry: K-12 TLC Guide.

de Hostos, Eugenio María: K-12 TLC Guide.

de Leon, Martin: K-12 TLC Guide.
de Zavala, Lorenzo: K-12 TLC Guide.
Delgado-Vota, Carmen: K-12 TLC Guide.
Elizondo, Virgilio: K-12 TLC Guide.
Escalante, Jaime: K-12 TLC Guide.
Esquiroz, Margarita: K-12 TLC Guide.
Fernandez, Joseph A.: K-12 TLC Guide.
Ferre, Maria Isolina: K-12 TLC Guide.
Flores, Patrick: K-12 TLC Guide.
Gallegos, José Manuel.

García, Juliet Villarreal: K-12 TLC Guide.

Gonzalez, Corky: K-12 TLC Guide.

Hernandez, Antonia: K-12 TLC Guide.
Hernández Colón, Rafael: K-12 TLC Guide.
Huerta, Dolores: K-12 TLC Guide.

Kickbusch, Consuelo Castillo: K-12 TLC Guide:

de Magnón, Leonor Villegas: K-12 TLC Guide.

Martinez, Mel: K-12 TLC Guide.
Novello, Antonia Coello: K-12 TLC Guide.
Pagán, Bolívar: K-12 TLC Guide.
Pantoja, Antonia: K-12 TLC Guide.
Peńa , Federico F..
Ramírez, Sara Estela: K-12 TLC Guide.

Reynoso, Cruz: K_12 TLC Guide.
Richardson, Bill.

Rodriguez, Gloria: K-12 TLC Guide.

Ros-Lehtinen, Ileana: K-12 TLC Guide.

Schomburg, Arthur A.: K-12 TLC Guide.
Seguín, Juan: K-12 TLC Guide.
Serra, Junípero: K-12 TLC Guide.

Sototmayor, Sonia.: K-12 TLC Guide.

Velasquez, Baldemar: K-12 TLC Guide.
Yzaguirre, Raul: K-12 TLC Guide

Hispanic Heritage

American Composers: K-12 TLC Guide.
Composers: K-12 TLC Guide.
Opera: K-12 TLC Guide.

Brooks-Bruzzese, James: K-12 TLC Guide.

Hispanic Heritage

Mathematicians, Scientists and Inventors Section

K-12 TLC Guide to American Scientists & Mathematicians.
K-12 TLC Guide to Scientists & Mathematicians.

Alvarez, Luis: K-12 TLC Guide.
Benacerraf, Baruj: K-12 TLC Guide.

Delgado, Jane L.: K-12 TLC Guide.

Cifuentes, Inés: K-12 TLC Guide.

Greer, Pedro Jose, Jr.L K-12 TLC Guide.

Molina, Mario Jose: K-12 TLC Guide.

Quinones-Hinojosa, Alfredo: K-12 TLC Guide.

Hispanic Heritage

American Sports Figures: K-12 TLC Guide.
K-12 TLC Guide to Cuban Sports Figures.
K-12 TLC Guide to Dominican Republic Sports Figures.
K-12 TLC Guide to Puerto Rican Sports Figures.

Latino Sports Legends.
National Public Radio:
- How Baseball Changed Life in a Dominican Town.
Bonilla, Bobby: K-12 TLC Guide.

Cantor, Andrés: K-12 TLC Guide.

Cepeda, Orlando: K-12 TLC Guide.
Clemente, Roberto: K-12 TLC Guide.
Cordero, Angel, Jr.: K-12 TLC Guide.
Fernandez, Mary Jo: K-12 TLC Guide.
Garciaparra , Nomar: K-12 TLC Guide.

Gonzalez, Tony: K-12 TLC Guide.

Hernandez, Orlando: K-12 TLC Guide.
Lobo Rebecca: K-12 TLC Guide.
Lopez, Nancy: K-12 TLC Guide:

Marichal, Juan: K-12 TLC Guide.

Martinez, Pedro: K-12 TLC Guide.
Minaya, Omar: K-12 TLC Guide.
Muńoz, Anthony: K-12 TLC Guide
Nuńez, Tommy:
Parra, Derek: K-12 TLC Guide.

Pérez, Tony : K-12 TLC Guide.

Ramos, Tab: K-12 TLC Guide.

Rodriguez, Chi Chi: K-12 TLC Guide.
Sosa, Sammy: K-12 TLC Guide.
Torres, José: K-12 TLC Guide.

Hispanic Heritage

Education, Libraries and Museums Section

Hispanic Heritage Awards.
Hispano Music and Culture of the Northern Rio Grande,
Library of Congress.
Mexican American Legal Defense and Educational Fund.
NASA Today:
- NASA's Science News En Espańol.

National Public Radio (audio).
Oye Como Va:
- Abraxas, Amazon.com.
- National Public Radio: 9/25/00 (9:00).
Jiménez, Francisco: K-12 TLC Guide.
Puenta, Tito: K-12 TLC Guide.

Hispanic Heritage

Health

K-12 TLC Guide to Health Care.

Hispanic Heritage

Politics,
Government
&
Law

Independence:

Independence in Central America: K-12 TLC Guide.
Independence in South America: K-12 TLC Guide.

Bolívar, Simón: K-12 TLC Guide.
Hidalgo, Don Miguel: K-12 TLC Guide.
Morelos, Jose: K-12 TLC Guide.
de San Martín, José F.: K-12 TLC Guide.

Britannica.
HistoryWorld.
Latin American Revolutions, Truman State University.
MSN Encarta.
Yale-New Haven Teachers Institute.

National Public Radio (audio).

Hispanic Heritage

Mexican-
American
Studies

National Public Radio (audio):

Hispanic Heritage

Primary:
- Bread is for Eating, David Gershator,
  Phillis Gershator, Emma Shaw-Smith (Illustrator).
Young Adult:
- Clark, Ann Nolan: K-12 TLC Guide.
- The Circuit: Life Stories of a Migrant Child,
  Francisco Jiménez.
Adult:
- Eastern Stars, Mark Kurlansky:
- One Nation, One Standard by Herman Badillo:

Hispanic Heritage

K-12 TLC Teachable Moments

03/01: Women of Color Day.

05/05: Cinco de Mayo.

09/15: First Day of Hispanic Heritage Month.

12/13/1998: Puerto Rico Votes Down Statehood.

Hispanic Heritage Month
Ada, Alma Flora Algarín, Miguel Alvarez, Luis Ancona, George Anzaldúa, Gloria Badillo, Herman Benacerraf, Baruj Cepeda, Joe Cepeda, Orlando Cervantes, Lorna Dee Chang-Díaz, Franklin R. Chávez, César Chávez-Thompson, Linda Clemente, Roberto Cofer, Judith Ortiz de Santa Anna, Antonio López Delacre, Lulu Diaz, David Domingo, Plácido Farragut, David Feliciano, José Fornés, María Irene Gallardo, Evelyn Garciaparra, Nomar Garza, Carmen Lomas Gonzalez, Corky Gonzalez, Maya Christina Hernández Colón, Rafael Herrera, Juan Felipe Jiménez, Francisco Lopez, Nancy Manzano, Sonia Márques, René Martinez, Victor Molina, Mario Jose Montes, Marisa Mora, Pat Moreno, Rita Muńoz, Anthony Novello, Antonia Coello Ochoa, Ellen Parra, Derek Peńa, Federico Perera, Hilda Richardson, Bill Ryan, Pam Muńoz Santayana, George Schomburg, Arthur Seguín, Juan Serra, Junípero Sosa, Sammy Soto, Gary Velázquez, Loreta Janeta

Grades 3-5:
- Understanding Hispanic/Latino Culture and History Through the Use of Children's Literature,
  Jean Sutherland, Yale-New Haven Teachers Institute.
Grade 4:
- American Immigrants: A K-12 TLC Student Research Guide.
Grades 6-8:
- Chicano and Puerto Rican Literature,
  Trudy Anderson, Yale-New Haven Teachers Institute.
- Multicultural Math Fair,
  Frisbie Middle School, CA.
Grades 7-12:
- The New Americans, PBS.
Other:
- U.S. Adacademic Decathlon 2008-09: K-12 TLC Guide.
- Twentieth Century Latin American Writing, Yale-New Haven Teachers Institute.

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This guide last edited 10/24/2011
This guide last revised 06/15/2010