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Final Project: From Puerto Rico to Brooklyn - Starting a New Life

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Alicia Araujo, Final Project George Mason University Spring 2023 Hist 390-DL1: The Digital Past: Doing Oral History in the Digital Age Instructor: Katharina Hering, PhD, MLIS My final project is an interview by John D. Vazquez who interviews Puerto Rican migrant Luis Hernandez, conducted November 4, 1974. Luis Hernandez was approximately 51 years old when this interview took place. Luis Hernandez and his family migrated from Puerto Rico to Brooklyn, New York in 1926, when he was about 3 years old. He came on a boat, similar to the story from my primary blog post: Voices of Generations , which was the primary location for migration for Puerto Ricans during that time. PR Immigration Chart from Wikimedia showing New York has continued to be the primary hub for Puerto Rican migration To provide some context for this blog post, I feel it is important to highlight that Puerto Ricans are US Citizens by birth since 1917. As noted by Jorge Duany in his article “Nation, Migrati...
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Podcast Review: Take Her Out to the Ballgame

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The podcast I reviewed was from The Wisdom Project podcast on Soundcloud: Take Her Out to the Ballgame: Effa Manley and Negro League Baseball, 2016 https://soundcloud.com/the-wisdom-project/005-take-her-out-to-the-ballgame-effa-manley-and-negro-league-baseball Topic: Effa Manley and the Negro League This is podcast is an o ral history interview with Effa Manley, the first African American woman to own a professional baseball team. She co-owned the Newark Eagles   from the Negro League with her husband Abe Manley. In this episode Effa Manley recounts the importance of Jackie Robinson and the integration of Major League Baseball on the Negro League and how they built up a successful business but, in the end, when the organization dissolved, they lost their players to the Major League Network and they didn’t pay them or even say thank you, as Effa notes.                               ...
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Blog Post 1: Voices of Generations: Investigating Brooklyn’s Cultural Identity

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Hist 390-DL1: The Digital Past: Doing Oral History in the Digital Age Instructor: Katharina Hering, PhD, MLIS Assignment 1 By: Alicia Araujo Oral History Interview: Peter O. Mercado Oral history interview conducted by John D. Vazquez Date of interview: October 23, 1974 Duration: 58:45 Topic:  Migration of Peter Mercado from Puerto Rico to NYC/Brooklyn, the jobs worked, Puerto Ricans helping each other find success in the community, identifying impactful people in their community. There was a large focus on who the interviewee was affiliated with and their roles within the community within Brooklyn. Center for Brooklyn History (via the Long Island History Society) Full audio recording; recording with keyword index      Photo by author, Puerto Rican flag in Puerto Rico.  Peter Mercado in response to being asked if he had difficulty getting a job: "In those days there was no such a thing. That was a norm. In '28 you just walk anywheres and help wanted. There was ...
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