Introduction (excerpt):
In a world of hate, we need a concerned people, who can help to alleviate the bitterness and ignorance so prevalent all around us. Literally across the street from Florida, sharing the same flag, fighting the same war, struggling for the same peace, live the Puerto Ricans. We don’t know them and they don’t know us. What we do know about them, we often don’t like; what they know about us, they don’t like. We often think of them as being poor, dirty illiterate and lazy. They think of us as wealthy arrogant, race-conscious and tyrannical. As individuals, or even as groups, we cannot suddenly change what has needed to be changed for over four hundred years, but we can make a start. I spent ten weeks in Puerto Rico in the summer of 1952…
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