What is the history of Latinx students at Florida State University?

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What is the history of Latinx students at Florida State University?

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America Gonzalez in 1926
America Gonzalez's yearbook photo for 1926. She was also on the Flambeau staff where she was listed as "Flickers." (In the 1920s, movies were referred to as "flickers"). America does not appear in subsequent yearbooks.

America Gonzalez's matriculated into FSCW, 1925
America Gonzalez, like her older sister, Rosalia Gonzalez was born in Cuba.

Rosalia and America Gonzalez's Census record, 1920 (and father in 1930)
Bessie Bush Robinson made this record right after the new year, so it is likely that this is the same Rosalia, listed here as Rosalie to distinguish her from her mother, Gonzalez, who attended Florida State College for Women. She would have been home…

Rosalia Gonzalez, graduated 1921
Rosalia Gonzalez might have been the first Latinx student to graduate from Florida State College for Women, FSU's predecessor. She hailed from Tampa and involved in a wide variety of activities

Chart of Student Financial Aid Programs that includes a category, “Cuban Loan Program"
The chart is part of packet with the top page: Letter from Stanley Marshall, President of Florida State University, to Chancellor Robert Mautz of the State University System of Florida dated April 13, 1970 with Attached Report sent to Dewey Dodds…
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