Blanca Canales

Blanca Canales (February 17, 1906 – July 25, 1996) was an educator and a Puerto Rican Nationalist. Canales joined the Puerto Rican Nationalist Party in 1931 and helped organize the Daughters of Freedom, the women's branch of the Puerto Rican Nationalist Party.

Blanca Canales
Leader of the Jayuya Uprising
Born(1906-02-17)February 17, 1906
Jayuya, Puerto Rico
DiedJuly 25, 1996(1996-07-25) (aged 90)
Jayuya, Puerto Rico
Political partyPuerto Rican Nationalist Party
MovementPuerto Rican Independence
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As a leader of the Nationalist party in Jayuya, she stored arms in her house, which were used in a revolt in 1950 against United States rule over the island. During the Puerto Rican Nationalist Party Revolts of the 1950s she led members in the Jayuya Uprising, in which Nationalists took control of the town for three days.

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