Portal:Hispanic and Latino Americans/Did you know/8

... that fashion illustrator Antonio Lopez discovered Jessica Lange, Grace Jones, and Jerry Hall?
... that the Salad Bowl strike of 1970–1971 caused the price of iceberg lettuce to triple overnight, and thousands of acres of lettuce were plowed under as crops spoiled on the ground?
... that Amalia Mesa-Bains, a Ph.D. psychologist, was awarded a MacArthur Fellowship for her artwork?
... that the 1969 dedication of St. Basil Church (pictured) in Los Angeles prompted a "club-swinging mob" of Chicanos to break into the church during Christmas Midnight Mass?

2009