Puerto Rico

Pedro Albizu Campos

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Pedro Albizu Campos was a Puerto Rican lawyer, Harvard graduate, and from 1930 until his death the president o...

César Andreu Iglesias

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César Andreu Iglesias was a Puerto Rican Communist writer, one of the eleven defendants in the first Smith Act...

Blanca Canales

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Blanca Canales Torresola was a Puerto Rican Nationalist leader and one of the few women in history to lead an...

Oscar Collazo

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Puerto Rican Nationalist who, with Griselio Torresola, attempted to assassinate President Harry S. Truman at B...

Juan Antonio Corretjer

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Juan Antonio Corretjer, born in Ciales, was Puerto Rico's "National Poet" and a lifelong independence militant...

Alberto De Jesús Mercado

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Alberto 'Tito Kayak' De Jesús Mercado is a Puerto Rican environmental and independence activist famous for spe...

Irvin Flores Rodríguez

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Irvin Flores Rodríguez was one of the four Puerto Rican Nationalists who attacked the U.S. House of Representa...

Lolita Lebrón

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Dolores 'Lolita' Lebrón Sotomayor led the four-person commando team that attacked the U.S. House of Representa...

Pablo Marcano García

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Puerto Rican independentista and artist who, with Nydia Cuevas, occupied the Chilean Consulate in San Juan on...

Filiberto Ojeda Rios

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Filiberto Ojeda Ríos was a Cuban-trained Puerto Rican Communist and the founder and lifelong leader of the Ejé...

Luis A. Olivera

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Luis A. Olivera was arrested for trespass on the U.S. Navy bombing range at Vieques, Puerto Rico, as part of t...

Ángel Rodríguez Cristóbal

Ángel Rodríguez Cristóbal was a farmer, Puerto Rican independence and socialist activist who served as a leade...

Juan Segarra-Palmer

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Juan Enrique Segarra-Palmer emerged as a central figure in Puerto Rican pro-independence militancy and was wid...

Rev. Al Sharpton

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The Reverend Al Sharpton, the New York civil-rights leader and founder of the National Action Network, travele...

Clemente Soto Vélez

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Clemente Soto Vélez was a major Puerto Rican poet and co-founder of the avant-garde "Atalaya de los Dioses" mo...

Jane Speed de Andreu

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Jane Speed de Andreu was an Alabama-born Communist organizer who was jailed on at least five occasions between...

Olga Viscal Garriga

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Olga Viscal Garriga was a young Puerto Rican independence-movement spokeswoman jailed after the 1950 Nationali...

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Dámaso

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Dámaso was arrested for trespass on the U.S. Navy bombing range at Vieques, Puerto Rico, as part of the sustai...

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Amilcar A. Alicea

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One of approximately 1,500 activists arrested between 1999 and 2003 for civil disobedience at the U.S. Navy's...

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Carlos A. Frontera

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One of approximately 1,500 activists arrested between 1999 and 2003 for civil disobedience at the U.S. Navy's...

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Carlos A. Navarro

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One of approximately 1,500 activists arrested between 1999 and 2003 for civil disobedience at the U.S. Navy's...

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Reynaldo Acevedo

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One of approximately 1,500 activists arrested between 1999 and 2003 for civil disobedience at the U.S. Navy's...

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Isaias Agosto

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One of approximately 1,500 activists arrested between 1999 and 2003 for civil disobedience at the U.S. Navy's...

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Luis Agroni

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One of approximately 1,500 activists arrested between 1999 and 2003 for civil disobedience at the U.S. Navy's...