Timeline: Roots, the 1970s and the 1980s Full timelineRoots–1980s1990s2000s2010s2020s Family Roots c. 1875Birth of his great-grandfather, José Manuel Júnior. Family → c. 1880Birth of his great-grandmother, Maria Gertrudes Manuel. Family → August 11, 1900Birth of his grandfather, Joaquim Manuel, Sr., in Xartinho. Family → September 30, 1903Birth of his grandmother, Maria Rosa dos Santos, in Mata do Rei. Family → 1919His grandfather, Joaquim Manuel, Sr., emigrates to the United States from Xartinho, in the parish of Alcanede, at the age of nineteen, settling first in Massachusetts and then in Rhode Island; his grandmother, Maria Rosa dos Santos, and her family follow. Family → July 8, 1922His grandparents, Joaquim Manuel and Maria Rosa dos Santos, marry in New Bedford, Massachusetts. Family → April 27, 1931His grandfather becomes an American citizen in the United States District Court at Providence, three months after the birth of his son, Joaquim (Jack) Manuel, Jr. Family → August 15, 1936The Consulate of Portugal in Providence releases his grandfather from Portuguese military service. Family → November 22, 1937His grandmother, Maria Rosa Manuel, becomes an American citizen. Family → 1946Death of his great-grandmother, Maria Gertrudes Manuel, on January 26; she is buried in the cemetery at Alcanede, with money his grandfather sends from America. The Family Campo Santo → 1949His father, Joaquim (Jack) Manuel, Jr., visits the family in Xartinho. Family → c. 1955Death of his great-grandfather, José Manuel Júnior, at about eighty. Family → October 27, 1958Born in Somerville, Massachusetts, the grandson of Portuguese immigrants who settled in New England and kept their ties to Xartinho and Mata do Rei. Family → 1961His grandfather returns to the family grave at Alcanede. The Family Campo Santo → The 1970s and 1980s 1975His mother, Barbara, and grandparents in Portugal: in prayer at Fátima, and with his grandmother and cousins in Nazaré. Family → August 26, 1975His father, Joaquim (Jack) Manuel, Jr., is nearly killed by a crowd in the square at Rio Maior during the Verão Quente [Hot Summer] of the revolution. Paul, then sixteen, hears the story on September 1 at La Millière, outside Marseille, and it sets the direction of his career. Portugal & the April 25 Revolution → 1976First visit to Portugal; before it, José Narciso of Porto de Mós writes to his father, August 18, promising to meet the Manuel sons. Family → 1978Studies Portuguese at the University of Lisbon. Education → 1978First visit to the grave of his great-grandmother, Maria Gertrudes Manuel, in Alcanede, with his grandparents; summer with the family in Xartinho and Valverde and with the Martins and Narciso family of Porto de Mós, among them his brother David and his cousins Joaquim, João and Hilário Manuel. Family → 1979–1980Studies in Paris at the Institut d’Études Politiques (Sciences Po) with the Institute of European Studies; from February to May 1980 he is also an English teaching assistant at the Collège Saint-Exupéry in Noisy-le-Grand. Education → 1981B.A., Boston University. Education → 1981Finds his cousins, António Duarte and his family, in São Paulo and Taubaté, Brazil, and tells the story in The World at Boston University, September 23. Family → 1982M.A., Boston University. Education → 1983With his tia in Mata do Rei, beside the family village of Xartinho; his grandfather and father together that spring. Family → January 1986Visits the family of his Boston University roommate, Mazahir (Maz) Hassan, in Karachi, and from there makes an excursion to the Taj Mahal in Agra, India, January 19. On Saudade → 1986Begins doctoral study in government at Georgetown University. Education → 1988Takes part in the Portuguese language program for luso-descendentes [those of Portuguese descent] at the Universidade de Coimbra, where his cousin Joaquim Manuel of Caldas da Rainha joins him. Education → 1988In Porto de Mós with Mariazinha, his “Portuguese mother.” Family → Full timelineRoots–1980s1990s2000s2010s2020s Share this: Share on X (Opens in new window) X Share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Facebook Like this:Like Loading…
