Tuesday, May 6, 2014


Forced to resign from his post as deputy commissioner of New York City’s main antipoverty agency in 1968, Jack Agüeros began a five-day hunger strike in his office, where he is shown.

Jack Agüeros, 79, a Champion of El Barrio, Dies

By DAVID GONZALEZ
Mr. Agüeros went from a childhood in East Harlem to defending its Puerto Rican people as an antipoverty official as well as celebrating its culture by expanding and moving El Museo del Barrio.

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