Word: albizu
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Nationalist Party of Puerto Rico was formed in 1928, with a violent anti-American policy asserting that the U.S. has no legal claim to the island. Pedro Albizu Campos, a Harvard graduate and the present leader of the party, first drew attention to himself in 1931 by virtue of his revolutionary activities...
...about a year after this that the party reached its peak in terms of voting power, polling about 2,000 votes in the elections of 1932. Since then, Albizu Campos has spent seven years in Atlanta Penitentiary and the party's strength has declined generally...
...assailant and one White House guard were killed. This incident had immediate repercussions in Washington and San Juan. On the mainland, a grand jury was set on the track of Puerto Rican revolutionists who might be considered dangerous. Meanwhile, Puerto Rican police and troops rounded up Nationalist leaders, including Albizu Campos, whose home had already been under police siege for several days, and threw into prison all the Nationalists and Communists they could find...
Police yesterday arrested Pedro Albizu Campos '16 in San Juan, Puerto Rico, because of his alleged leadership of the abortive native uprising and the attempt to assassinate President Truman...