well as the experiences of other immigrants, becoming among the first Puerto Ricans to do so in English. His best known work, A Puerto Rican in New York, set the stage for the literary movement known as the "Nuyorican movement". Colón inspired other writers such as Piri Thomas, Esmeralda Santiago, Nicholasa Mohr, Pedro Pietri, and others. Colón, in addition to the organizations he founded and served with, sought to write in various newspapers to project his political and personal thoughts. He also utilized pseudonyms while writing, going by the names Miquis Tiquis and Pericles Espada. Colón began a Spanish language newspaper, and he would go on to write in both Spanish and English papers throughout his career. In 1927, he joined the editorial board of the New York City-based newspaper Gráfico (a newspaper edited by Bernardo Vega that featured writing by Cuban, Puerto Rican and other Latina/o migrants living in New York City). Gráfico was one of the Spanish-language newspapers he wrote for, and he wrote for it during the 1920s as a contributing columnist. Other Spanish-language papers that Colón wrote for include the papers Liberación and Pueblos Hispanos, both for which he wrote for during the 1940s. One of the English-language papers that Colón wrote for was the communist press. In 1955, he wrote a regular column for the Daily Worker, another English-language paper. The Daily Worker was a publication of the Communist Party in New York. Colón titled his weekly column "As I See It From Here," which appeared in the Daily Worker for two years; after 1957, the column moved to the newspaper titled Worker (a weekly version of the Daily Worker) for 10 years. Other publications that Colón contributed to include the Daily World, as a writer, and Mainstream, as an editor. Colón was also the president of "Hispanic Publications" which published history books, political pamphlets in Spanish, and literature. In 1933, Colón decided to officially join the Communist Party USA, remaining part of the organization until his death. In the 1940s, Colón was president of the Cervantes Fraternal Society, the Spanish language division of the pro-Communist International Workers Order (IWO), a non-profit fraternal organization (life & health insurance, social and cultural activities, etc.) made up of 16 ethnic/language groupings that, in total at its height, counted almost 200,000 members. (The Cervantes Fraternal Society, IWO, should not be confused with the Cervantes Society of America, an