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 Puerto Rican Nationalist Party series Events and Revolts


 * Río Piedras massacre - (authored 50% or more)


 * Puerto Rico's Gag Law


 * Cadets of the Republic


 * Puerto Rican Nationalist Party Revolts of the 1950s


 * Jayuya Uprising


 * San Juan Nationalist revolt


 * Utuado Uprising

Nationalist leaders


 * José S. Alegría - Poet, writer, lawyer and politician. Alegría was a founding member of the Puerto Rican Nationalist Party and president of the political organization from 1928 to 1930.


 * Blanca Canales - Political activist, Nationalist leader who led the Jayuya revolt.


 * Rafael Cancel Miranda - Political activist, Cancel Miranda is a member of the Puerto Rican Nationalist Party and advocate of Puerto Rican independence who proceeded to attack the United States House of Representatives in 1954.


 * José Coll y Cuchí - Founder of the Puerto Rican Nationalist Party.


 * Oscar Collazo - Political activist, Served as President of the New York branch of the Puerto Rican Nationalist Party. He was one of two nationalists who attempted to assassinate President Harry S. Truman.


 * Rosa Collazo - Leader of the New York Puerto Rican Nationalist Party branch and former wife of Oscar Collazo.


 * Juan Antonio Corretjer - Poet, Secretary General of the Puerto Rican Nationalist Party. Corretjer was also a journalist and pro-independence political activist who opposed United States rule in Puerto Rico.


 * Raimundo Díaz Pacheco - Political activist - Commander in Chief of the Cadets of the Republic (Cadetes of the Republica) Díaz Pacheco served as the Comandante (Commander) of the Cadets of the Republic (Cadets of the Republica) also known as the "Ejército Libertador de Puerto Rico" (The Liberation Army of Puerto Rico), the official youth organization within the Puerto Rican Nationalist Party.


 * Lolita Lebrón - Political activist, Nationalist leader. Lebrón was the leader of a group of nationalists, who proceeded to attack the United States House of Representatives in 1954.


 * Tomás López de Victoria - Political activist and Sub-Commander of the Cadets of the Republic. López de Victoria was the Captain in charge of the cadets who participated in the peaceful march which ended up as the Ponce Massacre. He led the Nationalists in the Arecibo revolt in what is knoan as the Puerto Rican Nationalist Party Revolts of the 1950s.


 * Hugo Margenat - Poet, Margenat was also the founder of the political youth pro-independence organizations "Acción Juventud Independentista" and "Federación de Universitarios Pro Independencia".


 * Francisco Matos Paoli - Poet, critic, and essayist, Matos Paoli was nominated for the Nobel Prize in literature in 1977. He was also a Secretary General of the Puerto Rican Nationalist Party.


 * Ruth Mary Reynolds - An American educator, political and civil rights activist who became involved in the ideals of the Puerto Rican Nationalist Party. As the founder of "Americans for Puerto Rico's Independence", she devoted many years of her life to the cause of Puerto Rico's independence from the United States.


 * Isolina Rondón - Political activist and Treasurer of the Puerto Rican Nationalist Party. She was one of the few witnesses of the killing of four Nationalists committed by local police officers in Puerto Rico during a confrontation with the supporters of the Nationalist Party that occurred in October 24, 1935,and which is known as the Rio Piedras massacre.


 * Clemente Soto Vélez - (authored 50% or more) Poet and independence activist who contributed to "El Nacionalista", the political news organ of the Nationalist Party.


 * Antonio Vélez Alvarado - "The Father of the Puerto Rican Flag". He was co-founder of the Nationalist Party and served in its Supreme Counsel.


 * Carlos Vélez Rieckehoff - Political activist, Former President of the New York chapter of the Puerto Rican Nationalist Party in the 1930s. In the 1990s Rieckehoff was among the protesters who protested against the United States Navy's use of his place of birth, the island of Vieques, as a bombing range.


 * Olga Viscal Garriga - Political activist, member of the Puerto Rican Nationalist Party. During the late 1940s she became a student leader at the University of Puerto Rico and spokesperson of the Puerto Rican Nationalist Party's branch in Rio Piedras.

Notable Nationalists


 * Margot Arce de Vázquez - Educator, Founder of the Department of Hispanic Studies in the University of Puerto Rico.


 * Elías Beauchamp - Nationalist who in 1936 assassinated Elisha Francis Riggs, the United States appointed police chief of Puerto Rico.


 * Julia de Burgos - Poet, Burgos is considered by many as the greatest poet to have been born in Puerto Rico.


 * Nemesio Canales - Essayist and poet


 * Carmelo Delgado Delgado - Abraham Lincoln International Brigade, Delgado was the first Puerto Rican and one of the first U.S. citizens to fight and to die in the Spanish Civil War against General Francisco Franco and the Spanish Nationalists


 * José Ferrer Canales - Educator, writer and activist.


 * Andres Figueroa Cordero - Political activist and member of the Puerto Rican Nationalist Party who participated in the attack of the United States House of Representatives in March 1, 1954.


 * Irvin Flores - Political activist and Nationalist leader who participated in the attack of the United States House of Representatives in March 1, 1954.


 * Isabel Freire de Matos - writer, educator and advocate of Puerto Rican independence.


 * René Marqués- Playwright, Marqués wrote "La Carreta" (The Oxcart) which helped secure his reputation as a leading literary figure in Puerto Rico


 * Pedro Ortiz Davila, a.k.a. "Davilita" - Bolero Singer


 * Germán Rieckehoff - Presided the Puerto Rican Olympic Committee


 * Helen Rodriguez-Trias - MD, physician and women's rights activist.


 *  Hiram Rosado - Nationalist who in 1936 participated in the assassination of Elisha Francis Riggs, the United States appointed police chief of Puerto Rico. Rosado and his comrade Beauchamp are considered heros by the members of the Puerto Rican Independence Movement.


 * Isabel Rosado Political activist Rosado was imprisoned multiple times because of her commitment to the cause of Puerto Rican independence.


 * Vidal Santiago Díaz - Barber and Political activist Santiago Díaz was the barber of Pedro Albizu Campos. He made Puerto Rican media history when numerous police officers and National Guards men attacked him at his barbershop "Salon Boricua" because of his ideals of Puerto Rican independence. It was the first time in Puerto Rican history that an attack of such nature was transmitted via radio to the Puerto Rican public in general.


 * Daniel Santos - Composer, singer of boleros

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