One of five children along with María, Olimpia, Juanita and Joaquín, Jesús became politicized when he heard the Lectores (cigar readers) deliver daily news and history to tobacco workers near his home as a youngster.

Jesús Colón (1901–1974) was a Puerto Rican writer known as the Father of the Nuyorican movement. An activist and community organizer, Colón wrote poetry and stories about his experiences as an Afro-Puerto Rican living in New York.

Jun 16, 2006 · Jesús Colón (1901-1974) was born in Cayey, Puerto Rico, after the Spanish-American War, when the American Tobacco Company gained control of most of the tobacco-producing land in Puerto Rico. His...

Somehow she managed to push herself in with a baby on her right arm and a big suitcase in her left hand. Two children, a boy and a girl about three and five years old trailed after her.

Aug 2, 2016 · As writer Jesús Colón discovered on a subway ride in New York City in the 1950s, perceptions about one’s own identity and the identities of others can affect the decisions people make about one another. It was very late at night on the eve of Memorial Day. She came into the subway at the 34th Street Pennsylvania Station.

Mar 17, 2014 · Two children, a boy and a girl about three and five years old, trailed after her. Anyway, at Nevins Street I saw her preparing to get off at the next station, Atlantic Avenue. That's where I was getting off too.

Colon’s dad was a baker and his family owned the “Colon Hotel&rduo;. In the cigar factory they would hire readers to read stories to the employees while they work so Colon would visit the factory to listen to these stories as a child.

Jesús Colón was a Puerto Rican poet and journalist, and a leading figure of the Nuyorican cultural and literary movement with authors Piri Thomas, Miguel Algarin and Miguel Pinero. Born in Cayey, Puerto Rico, in 1901, Colón migrated from San Juan to New York City when he was sixteen years old.

Jesus Colon, a Brooklyn Puerto Rican activist, traveled to New York from Puerto Rico on the S.S. Carolina in 1917. At 16 years old, he convinced his friends who worked on the crew to hide him in the linen closet in an effort to escape to New York without paying for a ticket.

His stories drew heavily on his childhood memories from rural Puerto Rico in the early 1900s. He vividly remembered the tobacco workers who, while rolling cigars, would listen to...