2024 Adult Hispanic Heritage Month

 

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1. Dennis Chavez, the first Hispanic US senator =: Dennis Chavez, el primer senador hispano de los Estados Unidos

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Author:
Coy, Cissie
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Louisville Adult Spanish Non Fiction
328.7309 CHAVEZ
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"Dennis Chávez was born in the small farming community of Los Chávez in 1888 in what was then the Territory of New Mexico. His childhood home had dirt floors and no indoor plumbing. As a boy, he tended his father's crops and sheep. He spoke only Spanish and never went to high school or college. This bilingual "flip" book for intermediate readers recounts the inspiring story of Dennis Chávez, who in spite of having to drop out of school in the seventh...