Records, 1950-1962.

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Records, 1950-1962.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/46874898

The collection includes memos, clippings, press releases, correspondence, photographs, speeches, ribbons, flyers, published reprints and pamphlets. This material concerns Purerto Rican nationalism, the imprisonment of Pedro Albizu Campos and the commoration of the Ponce Massacre. Also included are a 1952 petition and brief to the United Nations by the Council for the Defense of Don Pedro Albizu Campos, which asks for a commission to investigate the imprisonment of Campos; a statement by Herminia Rijos describng the condition of Campos as she found him during a 1954 visit to his home in San Juan, Puerto Rico; and a 1954 legal statement accusing members of the Partida Nacionalista de Puerto Rico of conspiring to overthrow the United States government in order to gain the independence of Puerto Rico.

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Lehman College Library, Leonard Lief Library

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Lehman College Library, Leonard Lief Library

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Partido Nacionalista (P.R.)

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The Nationalist Party of Puerto Rico was founded on September 17, 1922, in opposition to the American presence on the island. It was greatly strengthened beginning in 1930, under the presidency of Pedro Albizu Campos, who became very popular among Puerto Ricans. Initially opting for tactics of non-cooperation, the Nationalist Party quickly became violent, killing a police officer in 1936, attempting to assassinate President Harry Truman in 1950, and in 1954, firing guns from the viewing gallery ...

Partido Nacionalista (P.R.). Junta de Nueva York.

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The English name of the organization is Nationalist Party of Puerto Rico, New York Chapter. From the description of Records, 1950-1962. (Lehman College Library). WorldCat record id: 46874898 ...

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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