Hispanic Heritage Month: Heroes You Should Know!
National Hispanic Heritage Month is celebrated every year between Sept. 15 and Oct. 15. These Hispanic men and women have made a notable and important impact on society.
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00:00 Hispanic Heroes You Should Know for Hispanic Heritage Month
00:07 National Hispanic Heritage Month is celebrated every year between September 15th and October
00:12 15th.
00:14 These Hispanic men and women have made a notable impact on society.
00:19 Sonia Sotomayor Sotomayor became the first Hispanic to serve
00:22 as Supreme Court Justice when she was appointed by Barack Obama in 2009.
00:29 Ellen Ochoa Ochoa is best known for being the first Hispanic
00:32 woman in space and the first Hispanic director of the NASA Johnson Space Center.
00:41 Roberto Clemente Aside from an impressive baseball career,
00:44 Clemente was heavily involved in charity work.
00:45 He was killed in a plane crash while delivering supplies to Nicaragua following an earthquake.
00:52 Cesar Chavez Chavez co-founded the National Farm Workers
00:55 Association and led the most successful boycott in U.S. history.
00:58 His actions helped give field workers the right to unionize.
01:03 Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Ocasio-Cortez is the youngest congresswoman
01:07 in U.S. history.
01:08 She was also the first member to serve from the Bronx or Queens, New York.
01:15 Rafi Friedman Gerspin Friedman Gerspin is the first openly transgender
01:19 person to work as a White House staffer.
01:21 She is considered to be one of the leading voices for LGBTQ+ Hispanics.
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