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> Puerto Rican > Timeline: 1850-1949
- 1860: The United States Census lists three Puerto Ricans living
in the city of Boston.
- 1875: Puerto Rican patriot and scholar Eugenio Mar�a de Hostos
joins an expedition sailing from Boston Harbor to
Cuba to initiate an independence war against Spain.
The expedition's chartered boat sunk off the coast
of Boston. Fortunately, Hostos and the other freedom
fighters survived the boat's sinking.
- 1880: The United States Census lists three Puerto Ricans living
in the city of Boston.
- 1895: A chapter of the "Partido Revolucionario Cubano" (Cuban
Revolutionary Party) is founded by Cuban, Latin American,
and Puerto Ricans to fight for the independence of
Cuba and Puerto Rico from Spain.
- 1898: United States troops invade Puerto Rico as part of the
Spanish-American-Cuban
War. The first U.S. troops to land in the port
of Gu�nica, located on the southern part of the Island,
are the volunteer militia from the 6th Massachusetts,
United States Volunteers.
- 1917:
The Jones Act gives Puerto Ricans United States citizenship.
The act also mandates that all appeals of the Supreme
Court of Puerto Rico should be taken and prosecuted
to the United States Court of Appeals for the First
Circuit in Boston.
- 1920:
The United States Census lists forty-eight Puerto
Ricans living in the city of Boston. Most of them
reside in the South
End and Jamaica
Plain.
- 1940:
Club Hispano-Progresivo (Hispanic-Progressive Club)
is founded at 188 Hanover Street. The club is open
to Puerto Rican, Cuban, Spanish and other Latin Americans
residing in Boston.
See 1750-1849
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