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Nationalist Heroines - Puerto Rican Women History Forgot, 1930s-1950s (Hardcover)
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Nationalist Heroines - Puerto Rican Women History Forgot, 1930s-1950s (Hardcover)
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From the moment the United States seized Puerto Rico, in 1898, to
the 1950s, the islanders employed various forms of resistance
against American colonial rule. Starting in the 1930s a group of
Nationalists was determined to free Puerto Rico, by armed struggle
if necessary. A Nationalist revolution took full force in 1950. A
commando of men and women attacked the governor's residence and
assaulted police stations throughout the island. Others attempted
to assassinate President Truman In Washington. In 1954, Dolores
Lebron led three male companions in an attack on the U.S. House of
Representatives in which five congressmen were shot for keeping
Puerto Rico in bondage. Massive arrests followed and forty-one
women were detained, two of whom were sentenced to life in prison.
While the male Nationalists have been celebrated as heroes in
Puerto Rico, the women have gone unmentioned This book seeks to
rescue the stories of the women who gave up their freedom in the
quest to liberate their homeland.
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