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Don Pedro Albizu Campos, leader of the Puerto Rican Nationalist Party. Albizu Campos was the first Puerto Rican graduate of Harvard Law School. He served as a Second Lieutenant in the U.S. Army during World War I, and believed that Puerto Rico should be an independent nation - even if that required an armed confrontation. By 1930, Coll y Cuchi ...
The San Juan Nationalist revolt was one of many uprisings against United States Government rule which occurred in Puerto Rico on October 30, 1950 during the Puerto Rican Nationalist Party revolts. Amongst the uprising's main objectives were an attack on La Fortaleza (the governor's mansion in San Juan), and the U.S. Federal Court House Building ...
The $10,000 Correa Cotto bounty reward in the May 3, 1952, issue of "El Imparcial" Grave of Correa Cotto at Cementerio Civil de PonceOn January 25, 1950, Correa Cotto entered the Colon residence in the Villa Olga sector of Machuelo Abajo in Ponce and stabbed 33-year-old Rafael Parissi Vazquez 22 times and 69-year-old Rafaela Morales Melendez three times.
On July 3, 1950, President Harry Truman signed into law the Puerto Rico Federal Relations Act of 1950, as passed by the 81st United States Congress. [15] The law authorized a new status for Puerto Rico, as a "Free Associated State" (Estado Libre Asociado). It provided for popular elections of the governor, a bicameral legislature and bill of ...
Un Drama en Puerto Rico: Rafael Colorado D’Assoy: Silent, drama, short: First (non-documentary) Puerto Rican film ever made: Rosita Realí: Rafael Colorado D’Assoy: Rosita Realí: Silent: First Puerto Rican film to include the participation of an international artist: Batallón Puertorriqueño: Rafael Colorado D’Assoy: Silent
Holyoke's history in Puerto Rican settlements first began around the mid 1950s, when a landlord named Domingo Perez, purportedly became the city's first Puerto Rican resident. [2] By 1956 an article in The Republican reported on 1,000 Puerto Ricans in a self-described immigrant colony in the Greater Springfield area.
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Download as PDF; Printable version; In other projects ... Pages in category "1950s in Puerto Rico" The following 2 pages are in this category, out of 2 total.