Angel
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- was born on January 20, 1901 in Cayey, Puerto Rico. He was born after the Spanish-American War, when American Tobacco Company gained control of most of the tobacco producing land in Puerto Rico
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- at the Central Grammar School in San Juan which is where his passionate for writing career beganAdelanteHe left Puerto Rico to come to U.S when he was only 16 years of age. Before leaving Puerto Rico he was an editor for a newspaper
- He didn’t receive much schooling in Puerto Rico, was self-educated until he arrived to the United States. In the U.S he finished secondary level of schooling as an adult. In New York, he worked in different unskilled jobs such as a dishwasher, postal clerk, waiter and messenger.
- People’s World, predecessor of today’s Daily Worker In 1955, he began a Spanish language newspaper were he wrote a regular column for the
- He is known for being a political activist, through his writing he pushed for social change and also within his active role with the community.
- He had intentions of publishing another book but died before he could finish. After his death, his collections of papers were donated to the Centro de Estudios Puertorriquenos at Hunter College. The papers are an important contribution to the study of Puerto Rico history, especially for the action of Puerto Rican community’s history in New York.
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