{"product_id":"latino-firsts-9781578598489","title":"Latino Firsts","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eSalute the Latino legends, pioneers, and trailblazers! Celebrate the Hispanic milestones, accomplishments, and victories!\u003c\/b\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\nAn inspiring exploration of groundbreaking individuals and pioneering events, \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eLatino Firsts: Trailblazers and Milestones in United States History\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e honors the an indelible mark Hispanics have made on American history and society. Featured are brigadier general \u003ci\u003eRichard E. Cavazos\u003c\/i\u003e, Nobel laureate \u003ci\u003eGabriela Mistral\u003c\/i\u003e, actress \u003ci\u003eAmerica Ferrera\u003c\/i\u003e, playwright \u003ci\u003eLin-Manuel Miranda\u003c\/i\u003e, civil rights activist \u003ci\u003eDolores Huerta\u003c\/i\u003e, Congresswoman \u003ci\u003eIleana Ros-Lehtinen\u003c\/i\u003e, Supreme Court Justice \u003ci\u003eSonia Sotomayor\u003c\/i\u003e, president of the American Association for the Advancement of Science \u003ci\u003eFrancisco Ayala\u003c\/i\u003e, artist \u003ci\u003eJen-Michel Basquiat\u003c\/i\u003e, weightlifter \u003ci\u003eSarah Elizabeth Robles\u003c\/i\u003e, and more than a thousand other notable people and accomplishments, such as …\n\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cli\u003eAstronaut Frank Rubio (1975-) set he American record for the longest spaceflight of 371 days aboard the International Space Station\n\u003c\/li\u003e\u003cli\u003eOscar Muñoz CEO of United Airlines; Roberto Goizueta, CEO of Coca-Cola\n\u003c\/li\u003e\u003cli\u003eSpanish-born philosopher George Santayana (1863-1952) was the first Latino philosopher and writer to receive a Ph.D. from Harvard\n\u003c\/li\u003e\u003cli\u003eFashion designers Oscar de la Renta and Carolina Herrera\n\u003c\/li\u003e\u003cli\u003eFilm director\/producer Eva Longoria was named USA Today’s Women of the Year in 2024\n\u003c\/li\u003e\u003cli\u003eSpanish explorers were the first Europeans to set up settlements in Alaska and Canada’s Pacific Coast, at least twelve of them\n\u003c\/li\u003e\u003cli\u003eCattle and ranching first introduced to Hawaii by Hispanic cowboys from the Southwest\n\u003c\/li\u003e\u003cli\u003eThe first admiral of the US Navy, David Farragut, was the son of a Spaniard and a US Revolutionary War hero\n\u003c\/li\u003e\u003cli\u003eSpanish immigrant Rafael Guastavino, architect and designer, whose landmark designs include Grand Central Station, Carnegie Hall, the old Penn Station, and the Metropolitan Museum of Art\n\u003c\/li\u003e\u003cli\u003eMany US laws are based on Hispanic-Mexican law, including family law (community property, common-law marriage, homestead law, adoption law) and water and land rights laws\n\u003c\/li\u003e\u003cli\u003eThe recent changing of names for military bases from Confederate soldiers has resulted in the naming of Fort Hidalgo\n\u003c\/li\u003e\u003cli\u003eBefore slavery was abolished in the United States, Latinos in Florida and Texas operated extensive “underground railroads” assisting escaped slaves to reach freedom in Hispanic Florida, Texas and Mexico\n\u003c\/li\u003e\u003cli\u003eHernandez v. Texas, a 1964 Supreme Court case brought by Mexican American attorneys that desegregated juries, was a precedent for Brown v. Board of Education\n\u003c\/li\u003e\u003cli\u003eAstronaut Ellen Ochoa later served as the Director of NASA’s John Space Center\n\u003c\/li\u003e\u003cli\u003eLatinos from the Caribbean and Mexico introduced the cotton, cattle and sugar industries to the United States\n\u003c\/li\u003e\u003cli\u003eVirologist\/bacteriologist Sarah Stewart, the first woman, and Latina, to earn a medical degree from  Georgetown University Medical School, whose research showed that viruses can cause various types of cancer\n\u003c\/li\u003e\u003cli\u003eCarlos Juan Finlay, a Cuban doctor educated in Philadelphia, who discovered that yellow fever was spread by the \u003ci\u003eAedes aegypti\u003c\/i\u003e mosquito\n\u003c\/li\u003e\u003cli\u003ebaseball players such as Roberto Clemente, considered one of the greatest baseball players of all time and Alex Rodriguez, the highest paid ballplayer at the time\n\u003c\/li\u003e\u003cli\u003emultiple Oscar winners, including Anthony Quinn and Rita Moreno\n\u003c\/li\u003e\u003cli\u003eAnd thousands of other milestones and firsts!\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\nMilestones, victories and success are not always noticed when they happen. Sometimes an achievement is only recognized years later. Revel and rejoice in the renowned and lesser-known, barrier-breaking trailblazers in all fields—arts, entertainment, business, civil rights, education, government, invention, journalism, religion, science, sports, music, and more. \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eLatino Firsts\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e illuminates the rich and important history of Hispanic Americans!\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e","brand":"Visible Ink Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51041473528151,"sku":"9781578598489","price":26.21,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781578598489.jpg?v=1750950418","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/latino-firsts-9781578598489","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}