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Latino Americans

Latino Americans

"Latino Americans" is the first major documentary series for television to chronicle the rich and varied history and experiences of Latinos, who have helped shape North America over the last 500-plus years and have become, with more than 50 million people, the largest minority group in the U.S.

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Juan Seguin
8:11
Juan Seguin was a Capitan during the Texas Revolution.
Spanish American War
4:21
In 1898 the U.S. declares war on Spain after a blast destroys the battleship, USS Maine
The Alamo
1:51
Santa Anna laid siege to the Alamo and the Tejano defenses. All 189 men were killed
Mariano Guadalupe Vallejo
15:53
Vallejo was a Sonoma Californios, a general in the Mexican Army who favored annexation
Miguel Antonio Otero
5:20
Otero was appointed Governor of the territory of New Mexico by Pres. McKinley
Bernardo Vega
4:20
Bernardo Vega left Puerto Rico for a new life New York
New Mexico
7:17
Settled in 1598 New Mexico was the oldest and largest Spanish settlement in the south west
Mexican American War
2:29
In 1846 the US went to war with Mexico over disputed territory on the Texas boarder.
Cuban Exodus
13:32
Luis and Carlos Capo remember leaving Cuba for the United States in Fall of 1966
Julia Alvarez
3:18
A Dominican-American Poet, novelist and essayist.
El Dorado
5:17
The Capo family starts their own furniture business in Little Havana, Miami
Hector Garcia
6:57
Hector Garcia was a Mexican-American doctor who dedicated his life to help veterans.
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