Pamphlets Support Mission Study
Diocesan Press Service. December 10, 1964 [XXVII-8]
This year's mission focus is on our Spanish-speaking neighbors. In conjunction with the study materials which the Executive Council has published and made available for the church-at-large, a number of secular pamphlets and booklets might be useful.
The Migration Division, Department of Labor, Commonwealth of Puerto Rico has available (free) various publications.
CHRISTMAS IN PUERTO RICO by Luisa Frias de Hampel. For children. Story of a typical Puerto Rican school Christmas party.
DELINQUENCY AND THE PUERTO RICANS by the Rev. Joseph P. Fitzpatrick, S. J., Associate Professor of Sociology, Fordham University. For adult study. Reprint of a speech discussing problems of uprooting, dealing mostly with results on children.
SCHOOL INTEGRATION: A PUERTO RICAN VIEW by Joseph Monserrat, Director of the Commonwealth Migration Division, Department of Labor. Taken from an address at Teachers College, Columbia University. Adult. Explains what integration does and does not mean to Puerto Ricans. Insights into experiences and conditioning, as well as the Puerto Rican view of the total issue.
LITERACY TESTS: PUERTO RICAN PERSPECTIVE by Joseph Monserrat. Arguments against the English-only approach to literacy tests.
GAINS MADE BY PUERTO RICANS HERE and CITY RELIEF ROLL HELD DOWN DESPITE JOB-HUNTER INFLUX by Peter Kihss. Two articles reprinted from The New York Times. Adult.
NET MIGRATION FROM PUERTO RICO TO THE UNITED STATES BY YEAR and PUERTO RICAN POPULATION BY STATE. Two one-page statistic sheets. Adult.
Materials are available from the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, Migration Division, Department of Labor, 322 West 45th Street, New York, N. Y. 10036. Order materials well in advance of need since there are many requests for literature and time is needed for processing.