The ‘50s and ‘60s are of note, too.
In the 50s and 60s...
by elizabm
Posted on July 8, 2013
https://elizabm.wordpress.com/2013/07/08/in-the-50s-and-60s/
“Many Cuban emigrants wanted to create a Cuban identity in the USA; they created organizations to promote a Cuban cultural awareness. Once they arrived in the United States, Cuban emigrants organized communities and named them after the municipios (municipalities) in which they used to live back in Cuba. It was a small tribute to their homeland (Benson, 253).”
Many of my friends from grade school through high school were Cubans whose families fled the Castro regime. Some of the stories I heard from their parents were devastating and heart wrenching, to say the least. (60’s, 70’s’, and 80’s).