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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.
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 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.
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
Carlos Ponce – Puerto Rican actor, singer, composer and television personality; lives in Miami; Miguel Poventud, aka "El Niño Prodigio de Guayama" and "Miguelito" (1942–1983) – Puerto Rican musician, singer, actor and composer of boleros; lived in New York; Tito Puente (1923–2000) – Puerto Rican singer and musician [89]
Pedro Albizu Campos (June 29, 1893 [2] – April 21, 1965) was a Puerto Rican attorney and politician, and a leading figure in the Puerto Rican independence movement.He was the president and spokesperson of the Nationalist Party of Puerto Rico from 1930 until his death.
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 .