Arte Público Press’ US Latino Digital Humanities Center (USLDH) at the University of Houston proudly announces the launch of the Delis Negrón Digital Collection, a new addition to the Recovering the US Hispanic Literary Heritage Digital Collections. This bilingual digital collection honors the life and work of Delis Negrón (1901-1956), a Puerto Rican poet, journalist, educator and civil rights advocate who lived and worked in Texas.
Donated by Negrón’s family, the collection contains photographs, postcards, handwritten poetry, personal correspondence and clippings from historic Latino newspapers, such as La Prensa, El Jicote and The Laredo Times. Negrón was a prolific writer and a key editorial voice in US Latino civil rights activism, contributing to the League of United Latin American Citizens (LULAC) newsletter and participating in organizations such as the Gran Cadena Fraternal Filantrópica and Sociedad Fraternal Mexicoamericana.
The project also includes family reflections, making it a model of collaborative, community-engaged scholarship. The collection is openly accessible online to support research, education and public engagement.
The Delis Negrón Collection is part of USLDH’s mission to preserve and promote the cultural and historical records of Latina/o communities in the United States. Selected poetry by Negrón is already featured in El proyecto de literatura puertorriqueña/The Puerto Rican Literature Project, a national initiative to increase visibility and accessibility of Puerto Rican literary heritage. His poetry collection Palabras (1944) will also be published as an open access digital edition on APPDigital, Arte Público Press’s digital publishing platform.
Explore the full collection online at: https://usldhrecovery.uh.edu/collections/show/35
