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Antonio Herrera Moreno

Released
Gender:Male
Era:1950s
State:New York
Time Imprisoned:
4 Years
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Puerto Rican Independence Puerto Rican Nationalist Party
Antonio Herrera Moreno

Biography

Antonio Herrera Moreno was a member of the Puerto Rican Nationalist Party prosecuted in the second federal mass trial that followed the March 1954 attack on the United States House of Representatives. The government charged Nationalist organizers with seditious conspiracy as part of an alleged campaign to end United States rule in Puerto Rico by force. A jury convicted Antonio Herrera Moreno in 1955, and the court imposed a prison sentence of 4 years.

Photo credit

Antonio Herrera Moreno, Puerto Rican sedition trial: 1955, Washington Area Spark Flickr archive. Portrait crop from the documentary photograph; used with permission.

Case

Charges: Seditious conspiracy under 18 U.S.C. § 2384
Sentenced: 1955
Sentence: 4 years in federal prison
Convicted: Yes