Portal:Hispanic and Latino Americans/Did you know/7


 * ... that Héctor López was the first Panamanian-born Major League Baseball player to play in the World Series with the New York Yankees?
 * ... that 8-year-old Sylvia Mendez played an instrumental role in the 1946 Mendez v. Westminster case, which successfully ended de jure segregation in California schools?
 * ... that in 1992 about 10–15% of the Nicaraguan population emigrated to the U.S.?
 * ... that Richard E. Cavazos (pictured), recipient of two Distinguished Service Cross awards, was the United States Army's first Hispanic 4-star general?
 * ... that Linda Chavez-Thompson was the first woman, person of color, and Hispanic elected an officer of the AFL–CIO?
 * ... that the Farm Labor Organizing Committee's 2004 collective bargaining agreement with the Mt. Olive Pickle Co. marked the first time an American labor union represented guest workers?

2007