Great Contemporary Latinos Posters
for classrooms and homeschoolers.

Julia Alvarez
Luis Alvarez
Oscar Hijuelos

Rupert Garcia
John Leguizamo
Bill Richardson

Great Contemporary Latino, Julia Alvarez poster no longer available

Julia Alvarez
b. 3-27-1950; New York City, NY (raised in Dominican Republic)

Poet, novelist, and essayist Julia Alvarez is best known for How the García Girls Lost Their Accents (1991), In the Time of the Butterflies (1994), and Yo! (1997).

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Luis Alvarez Great Contemporary Latinos Poster

Luis Alvarez
b. 6-13-1911; San Francisco, CA
d. 9-1-1988

Luis Alvarez was awarded the 1968 Nobel Prize in Physics for “the discovery of a large number of resonance states, made possible through his development of the technique of using hydrogen bubble chamber and data analysis.”

Rupert Garcia Great Contemporary Latinos Poster

Rupert Garcia
b. 1941; French Camp, CA

Rupert Garcia, a Chicano (US citizens of Mexican descent) graphic artist working with posters, was one of the leaders in the Chicano movement of the 1960s-1970s.

Oscar Hijuelos
b. 8-24-1951; New York City, NY

Oscar Hijuelos, the son of Cuban immigrants, has been awarded the Rome Prize, the Pulitzer Prize (the first Hispanic in the fiction category for Mambo Kings, 1990), and grants from the National Endowment for the Arts and the Guggenheim Foundation.

Hijuelos novels have been translated into twenty-five languages and he has taught at both Hofstra and Duke University.

Oscar Hijuelos quotes ~
• “Though he first sat down before the piano to play that piece, at eight-thiry in the eveining, after the moon had risen over the east and the stars had begun their orbits across the sky, he could not have imagined that this little piece of music would not only outlast him, but that it would seep through time, like a ghost, and reach inmunnerable hearts and souls.” A Single... Melody (from when the world was good)

John Leguizamo
b. 7-22-1964; Bogota, Colombia

John Leguizamo is an actor, comedian, voice artist, and producer.

Bill Richardson, Contemporary Latinos Poster

Bill Richardson
b. 11-15-1947; Pasadena, CA

Politican Bill Richardson served as the 30th Governor of New Mexico from 2003 to 2011. Before being elected governor, Richardson served in the Clinton administration as U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations and Energy Secretary.

Chita Rivera Photo

Chita Rivera
née Dolores Conchita Figueroa del Rivero
b. 1-23-1933; Washington, DC

Actress, dancer, and singer Chita Rivera is best known for her work in musical theater. She is the first Hispanic woman to receive a Kennedy Center Honors award (December 2002) and was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 2009.

• Chita Rivera - 1985 Tony Awards

Lucille Roybal-Allard
b. 6-12-1941; California

Democrat Lucille Roybal-Allard is the U.S. Representative for California's 34th congressional district, serving since 2003. The district includes downtown Los Angeles.

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Ray Suarez, Contemporary Latinos Poster

Ray Suarez
b. 3-5-1957; Brooklyn, NY

Broadcast journalist Ray Suarez joined the PBS NewsHour in 1999 and became a senior correspondent for the evening news program on the PBS television network.