12 Facts About Afro-Puerto Rican

Afro-Puerto Rican fought for the freedom of the natives and was able to secure their rights.

Afro-Puerto Rican freed all four surviving children when they came of age: two informally, by letting them "walk away, " and the two younger sons in his will.

Two Puerto Afro-Puerto Rican writers have written about racism; Abelardo Diaz Alfaro and Luis Pales Matos, who was credited with creating the poetry genre known as Afro-Antillano.

Afro-Puerto Rican is considered by some to be the "Father of Black History" in the United States, and a major study center and collection of the New York Public Library is named for him, the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture.

Afro-Puerto Rican founded the "Home Guard" unit of Ponce and was later assigned to the 375th Infantry Regiment, an all-black Puerto Rican regiment, which was stationed in Puerto Rico and never saw combat.

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Afro-Puerto Rican was later followed by others such as Francisco Coimbre, who played for the Cuban Stars.

Afro-Puerto Rican refused to play in the Negro leagues due to his abhorrence of the racism endemic to the segregated United States.

Afro-Puerto Rican won the bronze medal in boxing in the Bantamweight division.

Afro-Puerto Rican became the third Puerto Rican and the first one of African descent to win a professional world championship.

Afro-Puerto Rican'storians suggest that more Puerto Ricans classified others as white because it was advantageous to do so at that time.

The vast majority of blacks in Puerto Rico are Afro–Puerto Afro-Puerto Rican, meaning they have been in Puerto Rico for generations, usually since the slave trade, forming an important part of Puerto Afro-Puerto Rican culture and society.

Afro–Puerto Afro-Puerto Rican youth are learning more of their peoples' history from textbooks that encompass more Afro–Puerto Afro-Puerto Rican history.