Blanca Canales

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Puerto Rican politician and independence advocate

United States PoliticiansLived 1906 to 1996 · aged 90

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Blanca Canales 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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The National Guard, commanded by the Puerto Rico Adjutant General Major General Luis R. Esteves and under the orders of Gov. Luis Muñoz Marín, occupy Jayuya

Casa Museo Blanca Canales

Plaque honoring the women of the Puerto Rican Nationalist Party

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Parley P. Pratt47.1

John G. Carlisle47.1

Lee Patrick Brown47.1

Frank Joseph Guarini47.1

Daniel Manning47.1

Stephanie Tubbs Jones47.1

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