What's Happening in January? [electronic resource] / Leonor Toro.

The booklet contains brief information on nine January events celebrated by Puerto Ricans: New Year; Epiphany; and the birthdays of Betsy Ross, Eugenio Maria de Hostos, Dr. Martin Luther King, Benjamin Franklin, Edgar Allan Poe, William McKinley, and Franklin Delano Roosevelt. Designed as a teacher...

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Online Access: Full Text (via ERIC)
Main Author: Toro, Leonor
Corporate Authors: Hamden-New Haven Cooperative Education Center, Connecticut Migratory Children's Program
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: [S.l.] : Distributed by ERIC Clearinghouse, 1983.
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