Wartime Role Led to Life Of Rebellion - And Prison

Chicago Sun-Times | July 26, 1993| | Copyright

As a Harvard undergraduate, Pedro Albizu Campos loved the United States so much he signed up to fight in the U.S. Army in World War I.

But biographers say he turned bitterly "anti Yanqui" after being assigned to a black regiment that served in Puerto Rico. His father was Spanish, his mother black.

In 1930, Albizu Campos became president of the Nationalist Party demanding full autonomy for Puerto Rico. After various bombings and the assassination of the island's police chief in 1936, Albizu Campos was sentenced to 10 years in prison for conspiring to overthrow the government. He ...

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