Puerto Rican Activist
1. Isabel González (1882)
Puerto Rican Activist
Remembered for her involvement in the important 1904 United States Supreme Court case Gonzales v. Williams, Gonzalez played a key role in securing United States citizenship rights for her fellow...
2. Pedro Julio Serrano (1974)
Puerto Rican Activist
Pedro Julio Serrano is a human rights activist and President of Puerto Rico Para [email protected] a non-profit organization that strives for inclusion of lesbian gay bisexual and transgender individuals and...
3. Lolita Lebrón (1919)
Puerto Rican Activist
Lolita Lebrón was a Puerto Rican nationalist who was convicted of attempted murder and other crimes after leading an assault on the United States House of Representatives in 1954 resulting...
4. Alejandrina Torres (1939)
Puerto Rican Activist
Alejandrina Torres is a Puerto Rican nationalist who was convicted and sentenced to 35 years for seditious conspiracy to overthrow the government of the United States. Torres was linked to...
5. José de Diego (1866)
Puerto Rican Activist
José de Diego known as The Father of the Puerto Rican Independence Movement was a statesman journalist poet lawyer and advocate for Puerto Rico's independence from Spain and from the...
6. Cayetano Coll y Cuchí (1881)
Puerto Rican Activist
Cayetano Coll y Cuchí was a politician writer and an advocate of Puerto Rican Independence. In 1917 he became the first President of Puerto Rico House of Representatives after the...
7. Carlos Alberto Torres (Puerto Rican Nationalist) (1952)
Puerto Rican Activist
Carlos Alberto Torres is a member of Puerto Rico's independence movement. He was convicted and sentenced to 78 years in a U. S. federal prison for seditious conspiracy - conspiring...
8. Mariana Bracetti (Unknow)
Puerto Rican Activist
Mariana Bracetti was a patriot and leader of the Puerto Rico independence movement in the 1860s. She is attributed with having knitted the flag that was intended to be used...
9. Isolina Rondón (1913)
Puerto Rican Activist
Isolina Rondón was a 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...
10. Segundo Ruiz Belvis (1829)
Puerto Rican Activist
Segundo Ruiz Belvis was an abolitionist who also fought for Puerto Rico's right to independence.
11. María de las Mercedes Barbudo (1773)
Puerto Rican Activist
María de las Mercedes Barbudo was a Puerto Rican political activist the first woman Independentista in the island and a Freedom Fighter. At the time the Puerto Rican independence movement...
12. José Gualberto Padilla (1829)
Puerto Rican Activist
Dr. José Gualberto Padilla also known as El Caribe was a physician poet journalist politician and advocate for Puerto Rico's independence. He suffered imprisonment and constant persecution by the Spanish...
13. Manuel Corchado y Juarbe (1840)
Puerto Rican Activist
Manuel Corchado y Juarbe was a Puerto Rican poet journalist and politician who defended the abolition of slavery and the establishment of a University in Puerto Rico. Through his written...
