Griot Apparel - Brooklyn NY

Don Pedro
Albizu Campos

Men's Tee & Ladies' Tank

Blue on Black
Printed on American Apparel

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About This Shirt:

Don Pedro Albizu Campos (1891 - 1965) went from Ponce to the presidency of the Cosmopolitan Club. Before turning 30, he had seen Europe while serving in the U.S. Army's colored corps, fought as an officer in World War I and graduated from Harvard with six different diplomas in fields from philosophy to chemical engineering and law to military science. He developed non-collaboration as an instrument of
resistance to imperialism and became the most consequential Puerto Rican political figure of the 20th Century.

Don Pedro was a masterful orator for the causes of international independence movements and individual freedoms. He was elected president of the Puerto Rican Nationalist Party in 1930 and helped form the first Women's Nationalist Committee, in Vieques. In 1932, he published findings that exposed Presbyterian Hospital and the Rockefeller Foundation for having injected Puerto Rican patients on clinical trials with cancerous cells. In 1936, he was arrested and
imprisoned on charges of "seditious conspiracy to overthrow the U.S. Government in Puerto Rico." Sometime, during his first 10 (of 25 years spent in the American prison industrial complex) he was exposed to toxic levels of radiation as part of unconsensual experiments conducted on inmates in Atlanta prisons.

Among Puerto Ricans, he is known simply as "el Maestro" -- the teacher.

Art/Design by Julia Cocuzza

Research by Dropout/Postgrad