NYC's First Latina LibrarianNew York City got its first Latina librarian, Pura Belpré, in 1921. With no books for Latino kids on the shelves, Belpré wrote her own stories, based on Puerto Rican folktales.
New York City got its first Latina librarian, Pura Belpré, in 1921. With no books for Latino kids on the shelves, Belpré wrote her own stories, based on Puerto Rican folktales.