#PuertoRico #PonceMassacre #ColonizerCulture literally killing #IndependenceMovements
The #PonceMassacre was on #ThisDayInHistory in 1937 in #PuertoRico, when police under a military governor opened fire on a #nationalist demonstration, killing 19 & wounding 200+. The protest was to commemorate the ending of slavery and to demand freedom for a political prisoner.
#OTD in #History 1937
March 21: #PonceMassacre
Police shot peaceful protesters, killing NINETEEN and wounding over two-hundred others in Ponce, Puerto Rico.
ugly #AmericanHistory
#WhiteSupremacy bullshit
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#PuertoRico #CaribbeanMatters #PonceMassacre (literally killing the #Independence movement)
"Governor Blanton Winship revoked the permit without notice or time to plan an alternate route. Ordered to stop the demonstration, police attacked the nationalists with machine guns, tear gas, rifles and pistols. 17 civilians were killed; as many as 200 were wounded."
#PonceMassacre
#ChingaLaMigra
#OTD in #History 1937
March 21: #PonceMassacre
Police shot peaceful protesters, killing NINETEEN and wounding over two-hundred others in Ponce, Puerto Rico.
ugly #AmericanHistory
#WhiteSupremacy bullshit
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On the anniversary of the #PonceMassacre, a look at the event and how literature has viewed it.
>La masacre de Ponce y la literatura. claridadpuertorico.com/la-masacre-d...
#MasacreDePonce #PuertoRico #BackInTheUSColony #colonialism #imperialism #AmericanEmpire #MastodonPR
Want to learn more about the #PonceMassacre? Try reading the 'War Against All Puerto Ricans'
Curious? Here is my #review of the book.
itinerantlibrarian.blogspot.com/2015/09/book...
#books #reading #BookReview #BackInTheUSColony #PuertoRico #MasacreDePonce #YankeeGoHome ๐๐