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  Science Fair Projects - Antonia Pantojas
Antonia Pantojas (September 13, 1922-May 24, 2002), born in San Juan, Puerto Rico was an educator, a civil rights leader and founder of "Aspira ".
Dr. Pantojas won a scholarship to Hunters College in the Bronx, where she graduated with a Bachelors' degree in sociology in 1952.
Antonia Pantojas died in Manhattan, New York on May 24, 2002.
www.all-science-fair-projects.com /science_fair_projects_encyclopedia/Antonia_Pantojas   (612 words)

  
 Puerto Rico and the American Dream
Pantoja, who received the Presidential Medal of Freedom from President Bill Clinton in 1996 for her efforts to provide educational and economic opportunities for Puerto Ricans, was born in poverty in San Juan, P.R., in 1922.
Upon graduation, Dr. Pantoja focused her attention on the grinding poverty of Puerto Ricans in New York.
Pantoja directed most of her energies, however, to improving the performance in New York schools of Puerto Rican children, children of Spanish speakers who were taught only in English.
www.prdream.com /patria/centro/10_30_01/bio-pantojas.html   (799 words)

  
 OrgulloBoricua.net - Portal de la comunidad gay en Puerto Rico
Antonia Pantoja, an educator and community activist in the Puerto Rican community and a founder of some of the nation's longest-lasting Latino organizations and institutions, died Friday of cancer at the
Pantoja, who was born in San Juan on Sept. 13, 1921, graduated from the University of Puerto Rico with a teaching certificate.
Antonia Pantoja - educator and community activist in the Puerto Rican community and a founder of some of the nation's longest-lasting Latino organizations and institutions.
www.orgulloboricua.net /orgullo/orgullo_antoniap.html   (602 words)

  
 Planners Network: Publications
Last weekend, I went to New York to go to the Puerto Rican Parade and to attend the presentation of the memoirs of Antonia Pantojas, the founder of ASPIRA and the National Puerto Rican Coalition.
To close, I want to return to the vision of Antonia Pantojas, arguably the key figure in US Puerto Rican community development in the past century.
Antonia Pantojas had the wisdom and vision to realize that the main task is to build collective power–to establish local institutions of grassroots sustainable development at the same time that we build broad-based coalitions at the city, state, national and global levels to produce a more just and humane world.
www.plannersnetwork.org /publications/2002_153_summer/lao_montes.htm   (1334 words)

  
 New York Daily News, October 24, 2000 by Juan Gonzalez
That was the year the Board of Education was forced into the historic federal consent decree with Aspira of New York that began the bilingual education experiment in earnest in this town.
Aspira is the agency founded by one of the most venerated educators in the Puerto Rican community, Dr. Antonia Pantojas, who sought to train a new generation of Puerto Rican professionals.
By the early 1970s, Pantojas was frustrated at the public schools' failure to educate Puerto Rican children.
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 Antonia Pantoja - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
It has provided approximately 50,000 Latino students with career and college counseling, financial aid and other assistance.
In 1972, Aspira of New York, under the direction of Dr. Mario Anglada and with the support of Dr. Pantoja, filed a civil rights lawsuit in the Federal court demanding that New York City provide classroom instruction in transitional Spanish for struggling Latino students.
For another biography of Pantoja, see Virginia Sanchez Korrol, "Antonia Pantoja and the Power of Community Action" in Latina Legacies: Identity, Biography, and Community, edited by Vicki L. Ruiz and Virginia Sanchez Korrol (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2005), pages 209-224,
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Antonia_Pantojas   (1223 words)

  
 Latino Public Broadcasting
It will examine the crumbling years of Imperial Spain; the tumultuous independence struggles on Bolivar's native continent; and the birth and development of several South American nation-states.
Abriendo Camino will vividly recount, using Puerto Rican visionary leader Dr. Antonia Pantojas as its guide, the civil rights era which heralded massive change across the United States.
During this tumultuous period, Puerto Ricans arrived in New York City impacting the nation through a distinct cultural and racial identity and a three-decade struggle for language and education civil rights.
www.lpbp.org /2003_awarded_projects.htm   (1163 words)

  
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