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Puerto Rican Cultural Center collection

Members of the Puerto Rican and Latinx community in Chicago established the non-proft Juan Antonio Corretjer Puerto Rican Cultural Center (PRCC) in 1973 to address the social and cultural needs of the West Town and Humboldt Park community. The collection contains printed documents produced and published by the Puerto Rican Cultural Center including newspapers, flyers, programs, and books. Photographs, ephemera, and memorabilia from the center are also included.

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Can't Jail the Spirit: Political Prisoners in the U.S. (selected pages)
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Selected pages from Can't Jail the Spirit - A Collection of Autobiographies of Political Prisoners by Jose E., Bobby Castillo, Luis Nieve-Falcon, Bo-rita d. brown and Therese, Mark Davis, et al Lopez.
Date:
2002
Collection:
Puerto Rican Cultural Center Collection
Access:
Public access
Del Otro Lado Del Alambrado (Book jacket)
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Selections from a booklet containing prose and poetry about undocumented Mexican people.
Date:
2004
Collection:
Puerto Rican Cultural Center Collection
Access:
Public access
Doña Consuelo Habla Sobre...
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Cover pages from a booklet with prose and poetry about and for Doña Consuelo.
Collection:
Puerto Rican Cultural Center Collection
Access:
Public access
European philosophy book review
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Review of book on European philosophy (Problemas de Interpretacion y Concimiento En la Filosofia Europea) in Resena Literaria.
Collection:
Puerto Rican Cultural Center Collection
Access:
Public access
Female Stereotypes and the Stories Behind Them: A presentation by Elvia Nuñez and Emma Ortiz
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Text by female students of the Lolita Lebron Family Learning Center and Dr. Pedro Albizu Campos High School about women and stereoyping.
Collection:
Puerto Rican Cultural Center Collection
Access:
Public access
La Criminalidad y la Crisis de las Priones en Puerto Rico (Front and back)
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Front and back covers of book about prisons in Puerto Rico.
Date:
1982
Collection:
Puerto Rican Cultural Center Collection
Access:
Public access
Los conoceré por sus palabaras: símbolo vivo de sus acciones (Selected pages)
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Cover and selected pages from Los conoceré por sus palabaras: símbolo vivo de sus acciones. This book addresses the Anti-Colonial Independence Movement and includes student woodblock prints from La Escuela Superior Pedro Albizu Compos, Chicago, and writings from Norman Ramírez, a political dissident prisoner.
Date:
1992
Collection:
Puerto Rican Cultural Center Collection
Access:
Public access
Pensamientos del Maestro Pedro Albizu Campos (Selected pages)
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Publication of quotations by Pedro Albizu Campos.
Date:
1992
Collection:
Puerto Rican Cultural Center Collection
Access:
Public access
Problema de Interpretacion y Conocimiento en la Filosofia Europea
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Selected pages from a book on European philosophy by Julio Rosado Ayala.
Date:
1994
Collection:
Puerto Rican Cultural Center Collection
Access:
Public access
Prosa Ultima de Jose Marti
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Front and back cover of Egberto Almenas-Rosa’s book on the writings of José Martí, published by Editorial El Coquí Publishers, Inc., Chicago, 1997.
Date:
1997
Collection:
Puerto Rican Cultural Center Collection
Access:
Public access
Remembranzas de un Preso (Selected pages)
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Page selection for a book publication by independence movement activist Oscar Collazo.
Date:
1990
Collection:
Puerto Rican Cultural Center Collection
Access:
Public access
Your LIFE Story by someone else, (Selected pages)
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Poetry and prose by a gay man struggling with life issues.
Date:
1998
Collection:
Puerto Rican Cultural Center Collection
Access:
Public access

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Repository
University of Illinois Chicago. Library. Special Collections and University Archives Department (Richard J. Daley Library)
Collection Type
Manuscript Collections
Collection Location
Richard J. Daley Library
Theme:
Neighborhoods & Community Organizations
Politics & Civic Life
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