CHLS 350 Lecture 12: CHLS 350
11 Feb 2017
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Puerto ricans: citizens of the world"s oldest colony (gonzalez, chapter 4) Divided puerto ricans: political views and future relationship. Puerto rico is a colony, flag represents culture, not statehood. Educating herself and other to learn about puerto rico. To bring attention to what was going on in puerto rico. It was a desperate action because they didn"t have power, strong weakness. Lolita libran was the leader with three men. They returned to puerto rico, some saw them as heroes. Stole state truck of medical supplies to performed tb test on adults. New york passed the first law concerning the use of lead. (first state to do so). Originally the group were troublemakers, were encouraged by the nationalists to help the community. The first to deal with sexism, women were involved and organized. Constructed, the largest naval base, able to hold over 100 ships in case the british/soviets attacked the united states.
