Biography
Miguel Vargas Nieves 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 Miguel Vargas Nieves in 1955, and the court imposed a prison sentence of 18 months.
Photo credit
Miguel Vargas Nieves, Puerto Rican sedition trial: 1955, Washington Area Spark Flickr archive. Portrait crop from the documentary photograph; used with permission.
