DOUNIAMAG-PUERTORICO-ENTERTAINMENT-US-MUSIC-POVERTYA view of the neighbourhood of La Perla where the video "Despacito" was recorded in San Juan, on July 22, 2017. Something unusual is happening in La Perla, a poor barrio clinging to a steep hillside between Old San Juan and the sea where the video for the pop hit "Despacito" was filmed. / AFP PHOTO / Ricardo ARDUENGO (Photo credit should read RICARDO ARDUENGO/AFP via Getty Images)

July 18, 1946: Jose Rodriguez bringing 31 family members to Brooklyn, N.Y., where he has been working, to live together in a 10-room apartment he acquired. They're shown here arriving at Miami, Florida, from Isabella, Puerto Rico. The oldest member of the party is Jose's 73-year-old grandmother, Mrs. Francisca Rodriguez Cortes, and the youngest is his four-month-old daughter.

Miami Beach, City Hall, bilingual 'vote here' sign

Portrait of Machito (at mic, right), with his Afro-Cuban mambo orchestra, including: José Mangual (bongos), Carlos Vidal Bolado (conga), Mario Bauzá (far left trumpeter), Ubaldo Nieto (timbales) and Graciella Grillo (front left), at the Glen Island Casino, New Rochelle, New York, c. July 1947

Armed with clubs, pipes and bottles, this self-appointed posse of uniformed men was all set to settle the Zoot Suit War when the Navy Shore Patrol stepped in and broke it up.

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