The formal adoption of the Puerto Rican flag as a national emblem by the Puerto Rican government can be traced to Albizu ( even while he denounced this adoption as the " watering-down " of an otherwise sacred symbol into a " colonial flag "); the revival of public observance of the Grito de Lares and its significant icons was a direct mandate from him as leader of the Puerto Rican Nationalist Party.

In 1930, there were some disagreements between Albizu and José Coll y Cuchí, president of the Party, as to how it should be run.

In 1943, Albizu became seriously ill and had to be interned at the Columbus Hospital of New York.

By 1930, disagreements between Coll y Cuchi and Albizu Campos as to how the party should be run, led the former and his followers to abandon the party and return to the Union Party.

* On October 30, 1950, with Albizu now free and the new autonomist Commonwealth status soon to be enacted, Nationalist uprisings occurred.

After the meeting Albizu Campos received word that he was going to be arrested and that his house in San Juan was surrounded by the police.

By 1930, Coll y Cuchi departed from the party because of his disagreements with Albizu Campos as to how the party should be run and on May 11, 1930, Albizu Campos was elected president of the Nationalist Party.

Albizu Campos called for an armed revolution because he considered the " new political status " to be a colonial farce.

The PNP began to grow with the leadership of Dr. Pedro Albizu Campos, who was later jailed by the colonial regime under charges as a subversive leader.

As a youth, Balaguer wrote of the awe with which he was struck by his father's fellow countryman, the Harvard graduate and political leader from Puerto Rico, Pedro Albizu.

Recently, the Macheteros have focused on public education regarding the use of Culebra and Vieques as bombing targets for the U. S. Navy ; the disproportionate number of military bases on the island ( compared to states in the Union ); the proportion of deaths within the ranks of the Independence and Nationalist leadership, including the alleged experimentation with radiation on Nationalist leader Pedro Albizu Campos while he was incarcerated ; the secret testing of Agent Orange on Puerto Rican soil ; and cancer " experiments " administered by Cornelius P. Rhoads, in which he admitted killing Puerto Rican patients and injecting cancer cells to others, working as part of a medical investigation conducted in San Juan's Presbyterian Hospital for the Rockefeller Institute.

Albizu was honorably discharged from the Army in 1919, with the rank of First Lieutenant.

Upon graduation from law school, Albizu was heavily recruited-with a law clerkship to the U. S. Supreme Court, a diplomatic post with the U. S. State Department, the regional vice-presidency ( Caribbean region ) of a U. S. agricultural syndicate, and a tenured faculty appointment to the University of Puerto Rico.

The reason for this " delay " was openly racist: Albizu was about to graduate with the highest grade-point average in his entire law school class.

Albizu quoted as his source a letter, received from a third party, in which Dr. Rhoads admitted to injecting Puerto Rican patients with live cancer cells:

He stayed with Albizu Campos until the next day when they were attacked with gas.

Though in ill health, Albizu was arrested at once when Lolita Lebrón, Rafael Cancel Miranda, Andres Figueroa Cordero, and Irving Flores, unfurled a Puerto Rican flag and opened fire on the members of the Representatives of the 83rd Congress with the intention of capturing world wide attention to the cause of Puerto Rican independence on March 1, 1954.

Ruth Mary Reynolds, the American Nationalist, went to the defense of Albizu Campos and the four Nationalists involved in the shooting incident with the aid of the American League for Puerto Rico's Indepen ­ dence.

In the 2000s ( decade ), it was revealed that the San Juan FBI office had coordinated with FBI offices in New York, Chicago and other cities, in a decades-long surveillance of Albizu Campos and any Puerto Rican who had contact or communication with him.

The revolts began on October 30, 1950, upon the orders of Nationalist leader Pedro Albizu Campos, with uprisings in various towns including Peñuelas, Mayagüez, Naranjito, Arecibo and Ponce.

Albizu Campos had been corresponding with 34-year-old Lebrón from prison and chose a group of nationalists who included Rafael Cancel Miranda, Irving Flores and Andrés Figueroa Cordero to attack locations in Washington, D. C.

In 1936, Corretjer met and became friends with the nationalist leader Pedro Albizu Campos.

Albizu was hospitalized with severe injuries, none of which were life-threatening.

He met and became friends with Albizu Campos when the latter was hospitalized at the Columbus Hospital.

Santos became active in the Puerto Rican Independence Movement and identified himself with the Puerto Rican Nationalist Party and its president Pedro Albizu Campos after he was discharged from the military because of the prejudice which he experienced within the Army.

* 1891 – Pedro Albizu Campos, Puerto Rican independence leader ( d. 1965 )

* September 12 – Pedro Albizu Campos, advocate of Puerto Rican independence ( d. 1965 )

On March 21, 1937, a peaceful march was organized by the Puerto Rican Nationalist Party to celebrate the 64th anniversary of the abolition of slavery and protest the incarceration of their leader, Dr. Pedro Albizu Campos, in a federal prison on charges of sedition.

An open-air park in the city, the Pedro Albizu Campos Park, is dedicated to the memory of the leader of the Puerto Rican Nationalist Party.

Another argument by the independence movement is that the Macheteros are continuing the historical rebellion that Puerto Ricans such as Pedro Albizu Campos and the Nationalist Party have waged, against U. S. domination of the island.

It is known, for example, that Los Macheteros deliberately chose September 12 for their White Eagle assault on the Wells Fargo depot, because September 12 was the birthday of Puerto Rican Nationalist leader Pedro Albizu Campos.

One of these letters was intercepted by affiliates to Pedro Albizu Campos's Nationalist Party of Puerto Rico, and Albizu vehemently denounced Rhoades as an unethical and sadistic doctor who treated his patients as guinea pigs.

" For example, although Puerto Rican politician Pedro Albizu Campos had a doctoral degree, he has been titled Don.

Don Pedro Albizu Campos ( September 12, 1891 – April 21, 1965 ) was a Puerto Rican patriot and the leading figure in the Puerto Rican independence movement.

Albizu Campos was the president and spokesperson of the Puerto Rican Nationalist Party from 1930 until his death in the 1960s.

Albizu Campos was born in the Tenerías sector of Barrio Machuelo Abajo in Ponce, Puerto Rico to Alejandro Albizu and Juana Campos on 12 September 1891.

He was the nephew of danza composer Juan Morel Campos, and cousin of Puerto Rican educator Dr. Carlos Albizu Miranda.

On June 23, 1921, after graduating from Harvard Law School, Albizu returned to Puerto Rico-but without his law diploma.

Albizu left the U. S., took and passed the two exams in Puerto Rico, and in June 1922, his law degree was mailed to him.

Albizu presented his credentials before the U. S. Federal Court in Puerto Rico for admission to the bar, and was approved to practice law in Puerto Rico on February 11, 1924.

In 1924, Albizu Campos joined the Puerto Rican Nationalist Party and was elected vice president.

In 1927, Albizu traveled to Santo Domingo, Haiti, Cuba, Mexico, Panama, Peru, and Venezuela, seeking solidarity for the Puerto Rican Independence movement.