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Carlos Albizu Miranda [note 1] (16 September 1920 – 6 October 1984) was a Puerto Rican educator. He is the first Hispanic educator to have a North American university , Albizu University , renamed in his honor and one of the first Hispanics to earn a Ph.D. in psychology in the United States .
Carlos Albizu Miranda (1920–1984) was one of the first Hispanics to earn a PhD in Psychology in the United States and the first Hispanic educator to have a North American University renamed in his honor. [81] Albizu Miranda, cousin of the Puerto Rican Nationalist leader Pedro Albizu Campos, was born in Ponce.
Albizu University has its main campus in San Juan, Puerto Rico; a branch campus in Miami, Florida; and an extension of the San Juan Campus in Mayagüez, Puerto Rico.. Each campus includes a clinic that offers mental health and speech and language services to the surrounding community while providing a practical training site for students.
Carlos Albizu Miranda, psychologist and educator Founder of Albizu University. María Teresa Babín Cortés, educator, literary critic, and essayist Author of "Panorama de la Cultura Puertorriqueña", among others. Hemeterio Colón Warens, educator, land surveyor, and mayor of Cayey Founded Colegio Central Ponceño in 1883.
Albizu is a Basque surname. Notable people with the surname include: Carlos Albizu Miranda (1920–1984), the cousin of the Puerto Rican Nationalist leader Pedro Albizu Campos; Daniela Albizu (1936-2015), Basque teacher and writer; Héctor Valdez Albizu (born 1947), the current Governor of the Banco Central de la República Dominicana
Lin-Manuel Miranda (born 1980) – American actor, composer, lyricist, singer, rapper, actor, producer, and playwright, known by his roles in Broadway musicals. He is of mostly Puerto Rican descent, [15] but he also is a quarter Mexican. [16] Ruby Modine – American actress to a Puerto Rican mother. [17]
In 1936, Albizu Campos and the leaders of the party were arrested and jailed at the La Princesa prison in San Juan, and later sent to the Federal Prison at Atlanta, Georgia. On March 21, 1937, the Nationalists held a parade in Ponce and the police opened fire on the crowd, in what was to become known as the Ponce massacre .
Officer Miranda was shot dead in a firefight between the Nationalists and the police. Antonio Alicea, José Miguel Alicea, Francisco Campos (Albizu Campos' nephew), Osvaldo Pérez Martínez and Ramón Pedrosa Rivera, Captain of the Ponce Cadets, were arrested and accused of the murder of Corporal Miranda during the revolt.