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West Side Rising: How San Antonio's 1921 Flood Devastated a City and Sparked a Latino Environmental Justice Movement
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A Visible Witness: Christology, Liberation, and Participation (Emerging Scholars)
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José Celso Barbosa, president of the Republican Party in Puerto Rico.
Nelson Denis • War Against All Puerto Ricans: Revolution and Terror in America's Colony
FDR’s view of Tammany eventually caught up with the times. When Charles Murphy died in 1924, Roosevelt said feelingly, “In Mr. Murphy’s death, the New York City Democratic organization has lost probably the strongest and wisest leader it has had in generations.… He was a genius who kept harmony, and at the same time recognized that the world moves
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Waving the Rhoads letter, Albizu led the Nationalist Party in the 1932 elections. He fared poorly, although the pro-independence Liberals did very well. It was Albizu’s first and only attempt at electoral politics. Later that year, he drafted a constitution for the Republic of Puerto Rico and created a Liberation Army. The “army” didn’t appear to
... See moreDaniel Immerwahr • How to Hide an Empire
