HOUSTON, Texas -- Hispanic Heritage Month is underway, and as you get ready to partake in all the cultural festivities and food, here are a few things you may not know about the 30-day celebration.

President Lyndon B. Johnson started the tradition in 1968. At the time, the Spanish population was growing, and so he declared "Hispanic Heritage Week" during the month of September.

Dr. Guillermo De Los Reyes, an associate professor of Latin American studies at the University of Houston, explained how this was only the beginning of what would become a monthlong celebration.

"Twenty years later, in 1988, President Ronald Reagan said, 'Let's do the Hispanic Heritage Month from September 15 to October 15.' And the reason why September 15 is to coincide with the celebration of Latin American in

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