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