Perales, Cesar, New York
name: label: Collection Creator
content: Espada, Jason
label: Collection Photographer
content: Espada, Frank, 1930-
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content: Frank Espada Photographs
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content: Frank Espada Photographs / Series 1: Puerto Rican Diaspora Documentary Project / 1.4: Interviews
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1982
container: label: Container
content: Box 52, Cassette AC 1395 - OT0018
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Archives Center, National Museum of American History
objectType: label: Type
content: Archival materials
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: Director of the Puerto Rican Legal Defense Education Fund. Perales discusses the importance of bilingual education for the Puerto Rican community and the importance of bilingual ballots. Additionally, Perales discusses getting social services to Puerto Ricans and incorporating more Puerto Ricans in government in order to build political power. Finally, Perales discusses the barriers keeping the Puerto Rican community behind other communities.