Records, 1950-1962.

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Records, 1950-1962.

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Records include memos, clippings, press releases, correspondence, photographs, speech, ribbon, flyers, and published reprints and pamphlets. Materials relate to Puerto Rican nationalism, the imprisonment of Pedro Albizu Campos, and the commemoration of the Ponce Massacre. Also included are a petition and brief to the United Nations asking for a commission to investigate the imprisonment of Campos by the Counsel for the defense of Don Pedro Albizu Campos, 1952; a statement by Herminia Rijos describing the condition of Campos as she found him on a visit to his home in San Juan, Puerto Rico, 1954; and a legal statement accusing members of the Partida Nacionalista de Puerto Rico of conspiring to overthrow the U.S. government in order to gain the independence of Puerto Rico, 1954.

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Partido Nacionalista (Puerto Rico). Junta de Nueva York.

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The name in English is Nationalist Party of Puerto Rico, New York Chapter. From the description of Records, 1950-1962. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 155482843 ...

United Nations

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In 1945, four individuals who had worked on the Manhattan project-John L. Balderston, Jr., Dieter M. Gruen, W.J. McLean, and David B. Wehmeyer-formed a committee and wrote a letter to 154 public figures asking for their opinions about the possibility of the creation of a world government. Over the next year, as the various public figures responded to the letter, the responses were correlated into a report that was released in 1947. From the guide to the Balderston, John L., Jr. Colle...

Albizu Campos, Pedro, 1891-1965

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Pedro Albizu Campos (b. September 12, 1891, Ponce, PR–d. April 21, 1965, San Juan, PR) was a leading figure Puerto Rican independence movement. Born to an educated family in Ponce, PR, Albizu Campos attended the University of Vermont and then Harvard University. During World War I he volunteered with the United States Infantry. Following his military service, Albizu Campos attended Harvard Law School and graduated with the highest grade point average in his law class. However, his professors del...

Rijos, Herminia.

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