Afro-Puerto Ricans are Puerto Ricans who are of predominantly African descent or who self-identify as Black, although the vast majority of Puerto Ricans today are at least of partial African descent.
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19 Facts About Afro-Puerto Ricans
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Afro-Puerto Ricans fought for the freedom of the natives and was able to secure their rights.
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Native-born Puerto Afro-Puerto Ricans who wanted to serve in the regular Spanish army petitioned the Spanish Crown for that right.
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Afro-Puerto Ricans freed all four surviving children when they came of age: two informally, by letting them "walk away, " and the two younger sons in his will.
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Afro-Puerto Ricans is considered by some to be the "Father of Black History" in the United States, and a major study center and collection of the New York Public Library is named for him, the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture.
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Black Puerto Afro-Puerto Ricans residing in the mainland United States were assigned to all-black units.
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Rafael Hernandez and his brother Jesus, along with 16 more Puerto Afro-Puerto Ricans, were recruited by Jazz bandleader James Reese Europe to join the United States Army's Orchestra Europe.
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Afro-Puerto Ricans founded the "Home Guard" unit of Ponce and was later assigned to the 375th Infantry Regiment, an all-black Puerto Rican regiment, which was stationed in Puerto Rico and never saw combat.
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Puerto Afro-Puerto Ricans who were dark-skinned and wanted to play Major League Baseball in the United States, were not allowed to do so.
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Afro-Puerto Ricans was later followed by others such as Francisco Coimbre, who played for the Cuban Stars.
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Afro-Puerto Ricans refused to play in the Negro leagues due to his abhorrence of the racism endemic to the segregated United States.
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Black Puerto Afro-Puerto Ricans participated in other sports as international contestants.
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Afro-Puerto Ricans won the bronze medal in boxing in the Bantamweight division.
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Afro-Puerto Ricans became the third Puerto Rican and the first one of African descent to win a professional world championship.
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Critics of discrimination say that a majority of Puerto Afro-Puerto Ricans are racially mixed, but that they do not feel the need to identify as such.
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Afro-Puerto Ricans'storians suggest that more Puerto Ricans classified others as white because it was advantageous to do so at that time.
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High amounts of interracial marriage and reproducing, since the 1500s, is the reason why the majority of Puerto Afro-Puerto Ricans are mixed-race European, African, Taino, but only a small number are of predominant or full African ancestry.
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Puerto Afro-Puerto Ricans playing the Barril drum traditionally used in Bomba music.
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Also, many Afro–Puerto Afro-Puerto Ricans have migrated out of Puerto Rico, namely to the United States.
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