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Background Essay on Cuban Immigration and Puerto Rican Migration to the United States
This essay explores the dual phenomena of Cuban immigration and Puerto Rican migration to the United States, noting their relationship to those countries' respective independence movements as well as U.S. intervention in Cuba and Puerto Rico.
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Historical Eras: Industrialization and Expansion (1877-1913), Modern America (1914-1929)
Children Working in a Shrimp Cannery (1911)
This 1911 photograph depicts workers, including two young children, picking shrimp in a cannery in Biloxi, Mississippi. Shrimp canneries often employed entire families, many of them immigrants, who worked peeling, cleaning, and cooking shrimp that [...]
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Historical Era: Industrialization and Expansion (1877-1913)