Puerto Rico was hit hard by the Great Depression. New Deal relief programs were often democratic and locally controlled.

Puerto Rican queers produced theater and film that made them mainstays of the New York underground arts movement of the 1950s and ’60s.

Recruited to work on the US mainland for long hours at less than the prevailing rate, women migrants fought for dignity and recognition.

The resignation of Puerto Rico's Governor Ricardo Rosselló echoes an incident from the 1930s.