Pedro Albizu Campos was a Puerto Rican attorney and politician, and a leading figure in the Puerto Rican independence movement. He was the president and spokesperson of the Nationalist Party of Puerto
Campos in a U.S. military uniform, c. 1916
Lieutenant Pedro Albizu Campos (U.S. Army)
Pedro Albizu Campos in 1936.
The Ponce Massacre, 1937. Carlos Torres Morales, a photo journalist for the newspaper El Imparcial, took this when the shooting began.
The Puerto Rican Nationalist Party insurgency was a series of coordinated uprisings for the secession of Puerto Rico led by the president of the Puerto Rican Nationalist Party, Don Pedro Albizu Campos
El Imparcial headline: "Aviation bombing in Utuado"
The bodies of Nationalists Carlos Hiraldo Resto and Manuel Torres Medina lie on the ground in San Juan
(L to R) Nationalists Carmen María Pérez Gonzalez, Olga Viscal Garriga and Ruth Mary Reynolds