Latine Heritage Month

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  1. 4. Though from California, there is a ___named after Dr. Ochoa in Pasco, Washington
  2. 6. According to the United States _______, people were counted as Hispanic, Latino, or Spanish if they could identify Mexican American, Chicano, Puerto Rican, Cuban or 'another Hispanic, Latino, or Spanish Origin"
  3. 9. Hispanic Heritage Month begins ____ 15th and continues through October 15th
  4. 11. The _____/Latinx Student Center in the cub has supported Cougs since the early 1970s, and all are welcome.
  5. 13. In 1947, California Governor Earl Warren signed a law ending school ____
  6. 15. The Hispanic population of the United States as of July 1, 2019, making people of Hispanic origin the nation's largest ethnic or racial ____
  7. 17. Hispanics constituted 18.5% of the nation's total ______
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  1. 1. While there are many notable pioneers, currently Sonia Sotomayor is the first and only Supreme Court _____
  2. 2. Lin-Manuel Miranda another notable American with Hispanic ___
  3. 3. Dr. Ellen Ochoa is an American astronaut and ____ Latina woman to go to space
  4. 5. The term ____ Hispanic or Latino (or more recent term of Latinx or Latine) refers to a person's culture or origin - regardles of race
  5. 7. The In 1946 Hispanic students were sent to Hispanic school, the Mendez family sued, in Mendez v Westminster family filed a lawsuit that it violated the 14th ______
  6. 8. Hispanic refers to the ____ spoken, Spanish-speaking people from Spanish-speaking countries
  7. 10. Before the 1954 case of Brown v Board ______ of Topeka students were segregated to separate schools based on ethnicity outside of California
  8. 12. From 1968 to 1988, it was celebrated for one _______ until President George H.W. Bush expanded it to one month
  9. 13. WSU is considered an "Emerging Hispanic -____ institution" or HSI by the Hispanic Association of Colleges and Universities
  10. 14. To be considered an Emerging Hispanic Serving Institution, a university must have student ______ between 15% and 24%
  11. 16. Latino, Latinx, Latine refers to people from ___ America geography.