Nicholasa mohr biography channel
Born 1 November , New York, New York..
Nuyoricans are migrants and the descendants of migrants who moved from Puerto Rico to New York City and its environs. The bulk of this population migrated during the 1940s and 1950s.
Even though Nicholasa Mohr was born slightly earlier, in 1938, she still was part of those changes.
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Her writing revealed the realities that musicals like West Side Story glossed over. Her truth and determination helped make her a literary and artistic success.
Mohr’s mother Nicholasa (Rivera) Golpe moved with four sons to East Harlem and there met her future husband, Pedro Golpe.
The new family moved to the Bronx before having three children together. On November 1, 1938, young Nicholasa became their final child and only daughter. She fell in love with reading after discovering the local public library at the age of 7.
Her father died when she was 8 years old, leaving the family in a precarious financial situation.
She used paper, pencils, and crayons that her mother gave her to work thr