Anthropologist Maria Sprehn-Malagon, PhD, whose family is from Spain; historian Jorge Hernandez-Fujigaki, PhD, a Mexican immigrant; and college counselor Linda Robinson, of Puerto Rican descent, collaborated on this book. Both Maria Sprehn-Malagon and Linda Robinson are lifelong residents of the DC area. The pictures in this book were collected from family albums, local photographers' collections, scholars' archives, Spanish-language newspapers, and the Library of Congress.