SAN DIEGO, California (CNN) -- In the 1980s, San Antonio Mayor Henry Cisneros helped convene a gathering of Hispanic leaders to christen the time in which they were living: the Decade of the Hispanic.

the Hispanic community has always been present but either very small or not too visible. Gardere says in the 1970s and 1980s, ...

Records show that: by 1978 there were over 7 million Hispanic people living in America. By 1980 there were over 1 million in the city of Los Angeles alone By 1980, numbering 14.8 million people ...