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In South America in the last twenty years of 19th century, over 150,000 Andalusians emigrated to the Americas as a result of crop failures caused by the Phylloxera plague. [19] Many Andalusian peasants moved to Brazil to work in the coffee plantations, mainly in rural areas of São Paulo State. There are currently around 16 million people of ...
In 1856, Andalusia was the second Spanish region in terms of degree of industrialization, between 1856 and 1900 Andalusia had a rate of industrialization above the national average in the branches of food, metallurgy, chemistry and ceramics, from 1915 this supremacy was reduced to the branches of food and chemistry. [41]
In the 2013 American Community Survey, 759,781 people that reported "Spaniard", 652,884 were native USA-born and 106,897 were foreign-born. 65.3% of the foreign-born were born in Europe, 25.1% were born in Latin America, 8.3% from Asia, 0.6% in Northern America, 0.5% in Africa and 0.1% in Oceania.
Citizens' Alliances were state and local anti-trade union organizations prominent in the United States of America during the first decade of the 20th century. The Citizen's Alliances were closely related to employers' associations but allowed participation of a broad range of sympathetic citizens in addition to those employers apt to be affected by strikes.
American Citizens Abroad, Inc. (ACA) is a 501(c)(4) non-profit, non-partisan organization, organized as a Delaware corporation. Its sister organization, American Citizens Abroad Global Foundation (ACAGF), is a 501(c)(3) non-profit non-partisan charitable organization focused on education and research. ACA is a leading representative of American ...
BankAmerica Corp. acquired 130 branches of the thrift in 1993. [9] Four branches were retained and renamed First Madison Federal Savings Bank, which then purchased First Nationwide Bank in 1994, California Federal Bank in 1997 and Glendale Federal Bank in 1998. [10] In 2002 the thrift, by then renamed CalFed Bank, was purchased by Citigroup. [11]
The League of United Latin American Citizens (LULAC) is the largest and oldest Hispanic and Latin-American civil rights organization in the United States. [2] It was established on February 17, 1929, in Corpus Christi, Texas , largely by Hispanics returning from World War I who sought to end ethnic discrimination against Latinos in the United ...
Association of Andalusian Librarians (Spain) Association of Church Librarians in Spain; Association of European Research Libraries (French: Ligue des Bibliothèques Européennes de Recherche (LIBER)) Association of French Librarians; Association of Greek Librarians & Information Scientists; Association of Hungarian Librarians [Wikidata]