Lawrence, Massachusetts is a historically immigrant town established in the 1800’s when European immigrants came to work in the famed textile mills. Today, more than 80 percent of the population is Latino. Matter of Fact Correspondent Diane Roberts went to Lawrence to how this historical mill town became New England’s first minority-majority city.
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