Pedro Albizu Campos
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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.
Gag Law (Puerto Rico)
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Law 53 of 1948 better known as the Gag Law, was an act enacted by the Puerto Rico legislature of 1948, with the purpose of suppressing the independence movement in Puerto Rico. The act made it a crime
The arrest of (L to R) Nationalists Carmen María Pérez Gonzalez, Olga Viscal Garriga and Ruth Mary Reynolds
A wounded Vidal Santiago Díaz is carried out of his barbershop by the police