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States". She was accused of being the Liaison between party leaders in Puerto Rio and the New York junta; treasurer of the New York junta and participant in its discussions in regard to the House of Representative shootings. On October 26, 1954, judge Lawrence E. Walsh found all of the accused guilty of conspiracy and they were sentenced to various years in prison. She was committed for seven years at Alderson Prison, West Virginia. There she continued her friendship with fellow inmates Lolita Lebrón and
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Cortez-Collazo was accused of collaboration to overthrow the government and was sent to the Women's House of Detention on Greenwich Street in Lower Manhattan where she spent 8 months imprisoned. Upon her release, she successfully campaigned on her husband's behalf and gathered thousands of signatures
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Cortez-Collazo became politically active and joined the Caborrojeño Club and later joined the Club Obrero Español, radical labor oriented organization. She survived, during the great depression of the 1930s, with the help of the Salvation Army. During this period in her life she met and married Justo
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and lived with her father who had moved there two years earlier. There she worked for a hat company but, barely survived with the income that she received. She rented a room from her godmother who lived in an apartment building in Manhattan. Cortez-Collazo was subject to the racism which was rampant
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Lebrón, Cancel Miranda and Figueroa Cordero were immediately arrested. However, Flores walked away from the building in the confusion that followed. He took a taxi to a bus stop. There he was stopped and questioned together with various Mexicans who happened to be there, by the local police who had
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In 1954, Lebrón received a letter from Albizu Campos, in which he declared his intention to order attacks on "three locations, the most strategic to the enemy". Albizu Campos wanted Lebrón to pick a group of nationalists for this task without her personal participation. Lebrón presented the plan to
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The members of the New York City branch of the Puerto Rican Nationalist Party, including Cortez-Collazo, were also arrested. On July 13, 1954, the Nationalists were taken to New York, where they declared themselves not guilty on the charges of "trying to overthrow the government of the United
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In 1941, Oscar Collazo moved to New York City, which at the time had a large Puerto Rican community. There he met and married Rosa Cortez. The couple lived in an apartment building in the Bronx. They had a total of three daughters from previous marriages: Rosa had two and Oscar had one.
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She continued to actively participate in Puerto Rico's independence movement. In 1984 a commemoration for her independence activities was held in the Bar Association Building. She was also given recognition for her efforts towards the commutation of her ex-husband's death sentence.
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in their assault on the United States House of Representatives in 1954. She was charged on both occasions with seditious conspiracy for her complicity in a conspiracy to overthrow the United States Government and imprisoned because of her political beliefs.
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Cortez-Collazo was released from prison in 1961 and visited her mother in Puerto Rico. She later returned to her apartment in the Bronx. In 1968, she moved to Puerto Rico with her daughter Lydia and grandson. They purchased a house in
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for the task. The pistols used in the attack were purchased by the Chicago Nationalist branch and sent to the New York branch. The New York branch provided the group with weapons and the funds for their railroad tickets.
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publicly opposed the pardons granted by Carter, stating that it would encourage terrorism and undermine public safety. The twenty-nine years of separation eroded the marriage of the Collazo's and they ended up divorced.
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Disregarding Albizu Campo's wishes, she decided to lead the group. The date for the attack on the House of Representatives was to be March 1, 1954. This date was chosen because it coincided with the inauguration of the
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demanding that his sentence be commuted to life. President Truman commuted his sentence to life imprisonment to be carried out at Leavenworth. She also worked (unsuccessfully) for the release of her cellmate
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According to Cortez-Collazo the FBI knocked on her door and more than twenty agents entered. They showed her a photo of Oscar on the ground and told her that they had just killed him, she then replied:
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when the latter was hospitalized for a time at the Columbus Hospital. Oscar was named Secretary of the New York branch of the Puerto Rican Nationalist Party and later served as its president. He met
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as a direct response to the American colonial government in 1919, By the 1920s, there were two other pro-independence organizations in the Island, they were the "Nationalist Youth" and the "
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in 1923 and completed a 6-week nurses' aide course. Cortez-Collazo decided that being a nurses' aide was not her calling after she had to deal with the corpse of a suicide victim.
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commuted her husband's sentence to time served, after Oscar had spent 29 years in jail. President Carter also commuted the sentences of Oscar's fellow Nationalist comrades:
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from Michigan, was seriously wounded in the chest, Figueroa Cordero was unable to fire his gun because it was jammed. Upon being arrested, Lebrón yelled:
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where she was raised by her father's family after her parents were divorced. There she received her primary and secondary education. She graduated from
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Oscar, who worked in a metal polishing factory, joined the New York branch of the Puerto Rican Nationalist Party. He met and became friends with
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April 2012 Puerto Rican Women Nationalist vs. U.S. Colonialism: An Exploration of Their Conditions and Struggles in Jail and Court Margaret Pour
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one of two Nationalists who attacked Blair House in 1950 in an attempt to kill President Harry Truman. She was accused by the
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joined the party and on May 11, 1930, Dr. Pedro Albizu Campos was elected president of the Puerto Rican Nationalist Party.
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Luis Muñoz Marín, By A. W. Maldonado, Pg. 86, Publisher: La Editorial, Universidad de Puerto Rico, (December 1, 2006),
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Newsreel scenes in English of the attack on the U.S. Capitol by Flores, Lebrón, Cancel Miranda and Figueroa Cordero
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to Ramon Cortez, a merchant marine and Juana E. Fernandez, a seamstress. At a young age she moved to the City of
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By Vicki Ruíz, Virginia Sánchez Korrol, Inc NetLibrary; Published by Indiana University Press, 2006; Page 164;
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Jimmy Carter: Puerto Rican Nationalists Announcement of the President's Commutation of Sentences
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Mercado with whom she had two daughters, Iris and Lydia. She eventually divorced her husband.
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the Nationalist Party in New York where Cortez-Collazo served as treasurer. Lebrón choose
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Political activist and militant, treasurer of the Puerto Rican Nationalist Party NY branch
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Five Congressmen Shot in House by 3 Puerto Rican Nationalists; Bullets Spray from Gallery
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just heard about the shooting. They found a loose bullet in his pocket and arrested him.
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Newsreel scenes in English of the assassination attempt on U.S. President Harry S Truman
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This name uses Spanish marriage naming customs; the first is the maiden family name
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Latin American and Caribbean Congress in Solidarity with Puerto Rico's Independence
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19th-century female leaders of the Puerto Rican Independence Movement
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On October 31, 1950, Oscar and Torresola arrived at Union Station in
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Edward F. Ryan, The Washington Post, March 2, 1954, pp.1, 12-13.
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Oscar Collazo continued to participate in activities related to
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Prisoners and detainees of the United States federal government
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United States Verses Lolita Lebron 222 F.2d 531 (2nd Cir. 1955)
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Plaque honoring the women of the Puerto Rican Nationalist Party
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On October 30, 1950, Torresola and Oscar learned that the
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Latinas in the United States: A Historical Encyclopedia,
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Puerto Rican people convicted of seditious conspiracy
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Female members of the Puerto Rican Nationalist Party
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Fuerzas Armadas de Liberación Nacional (Puerto Rico)
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Planning the assault on the House of Representatives
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Puerto Rican Nationalist Party revolts of the 1950s
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Index


Mayagüez, Puerto Rico
San Juan, Puerto Rico
Puerto Rican

Puerto Rican Nationalist Party
Puerto Rican
Nationalist Party


Río Piedras massacre
Ponce massacre
Cadets of the Republic
Gag Law (Ley de la Mordaza)
Puerto Rican Nationalist Party revolts of the 1950s
Jayuya Uprising
San Juan Nationalist revolt
Utuado uprising
Attempted assassination of Harry S. Truman
1954 United States Capitol shooting
Pedro Albizu Campos
José S. Alegría
Casimiro Berenguer
Blanca Canales
Rafael Cancel Miranda
José Coll y Cuchí
Oscar Collazo
Rosa Collazo
Juan Antonio Corretjer
Julia de Burgos
Raimundo Díaz Pacheco
Lolita Lebrón

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