Blanca Canales
Puerto Rican politician and independence advocate / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Blanca Canales (February 17, 1906 – July 25, 1996) was an educator and a Puerto Rican Nationalist. Canales joined the Puerto Rican Nationalist Party in 1931 and helped organize the Daughters of Freedom, the women's branch of the Puerto Rican Nationalist Party.
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Blanca Canales | |
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Born | (1906-02-17)February 17, 1906 |
Died | July 25, 1996(1996-07-25) (aged 90) Jayuya, Puerto Rico |
Political party | Puerto Rican Nationalist Party |
Movement | Puerto Rican Independence |
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As a leader of the Nationalist party in Jayuya, she stored arms in her house, which were used in a revolt in 1950 against United States rule over the island. During the Puerto Rican Nationalist Party Revolts of the 1950s she led members in the Jayuya Uprising, in which Nationalists took control of the town for three days.