HIT: Hispanic American Websites

["Meizlik, Ilana" <002IM504@FORTBEND.K12.TX.US>]

Thanks so much to all of you who responded. This group is wonderful!

Several people let me know that there was a list of Hispanic websites =
in the
August 1999 issue of School Library Journal and that was very helpful.

I have listed the other sites people sent.

Library of Congress:  Hispanic Reading Room
http://lcweb.loc.gov/rr/hispanic/

Hispanic-American Hall of Fame
http://www.unbeatables.com/HHeroes.html

Hispanic Women (Las Murejes)
http://www.lasmujeres.com/

Famous Hispanics
http://coloquio.com/famosos.html

Hispanic Heritage Store - (sports heroes, leaders)
http://www.hispanicheritagestore.com/

Short Biographies of Hispanics (good size list!)
http://wwwdumas.sesc.k12.ar.us/~hispanic/biography.htm

C=E9sar Ch=E1vez (1927-1993) / Roberto Clemente (1934-1972) / from the
Smithsonian
http://www.npg.si.edu/col/spot/hispanic.htm

Chicana and Latina Women profiles
http://latino.sscnet.ucla.edu/women/profiles.html

PBS - Chicano Biographies
http://www.pbs.org/chicano/bios.html

FAMOUS HISPANIC AMERICANS IN THE HUMANITIES
http://www.ithaca.edu/library/htmls/humhisp.html

Hispanic Medal of Honor Recipients
http://www.neta.com/~1stbooks/medal2.htm

Latina Writers
http://sophia.smith.edu/~tstcloud/latina/writers.html

SACNAS Biography Project (Very good one!)
http://www.sacnas.org/bio/

Gale Corp has a very nice site for information on Hispanic Heritage =
Month.
It
includes 50 profiles.  The address is
http://www.galegroup.com/schools/resrcs/chh/index.htm

This Web site from the PBS series "Chicano" has some:
http://www.pbs.org/chicano/bios.html

This is a great site with information on Diego Rivera:
http://www.diegorivera.com/diego_home.html

Also try the Mexican Heritage Almanac
http://www.ironhorse.com/~nagual/alma.html

Hispanic Pages in the USA has biographies:
http://coloquio.com/index.html

Celebrate Hispanic Heritage Month!
http://www.education-world.com/a_lesson/lesson023.shtml

LatinoLink-Hispanic Heritage
http://www.latinolink.com/heritage/

Andanzas al Web Latino
http://lib.nmsuledu/subject/bord



Ilana Meizlik
Library Media Specialist
Willowridge High School
Houston, Texas
002im504@fortbend.k12.tx.us

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