page_title: Rosa Collazo
section_title: Later years and legacy
hierarchical_section_title: Rosa Collazo / Later years and legacy
caption_attribution_description: English: Plaque on Jayuya Monument in honor of the Puerto Rican women participants in the 1950 Jayuya Uprising — a Nationalist revolt in Puerto Rico. The Monument is located in the Cruzados' subsection of the Aguilar Ward in Mayagüez, southwestern Puerto Rico.
context_page_description: Rosa Collazo a.k.a. Rosa Cortez-Collazo was a political activist and treasurer of the New York City branch of the Puerto Rican Nationalist Party. She was the wife of Oscar Collazo one of two Nationalists who attacked Blair House in 1950 in an attempt to kill President Harry Truman. She was accused by the FBI of assisting Nationalists Lolita Lebrón, Rafael Cancel Miranda, Irvin Flores and Andres Figueroa Cordero in their assault on the United States House of Representatives in 1954. She was charged on both occasions with complicity in a conspiracy to overthrow the United States Government and imprisoned because of her political beliefs.
context_section_description: She continued to actively participate in Puerto Rico's independence movement. In 1984 a commemoration for her independence activities was held in the Bar Association Building. She was also given recognition for her efforts towards the commutation of her ex-husband's death sentence.
  She wrote her life story which is titled Memorias de Rosa Collazo, ASIN: B0000D6RNT.  The book was published posthumously on  January 1, 1993, by her daughter Lydia Collazo Cortez.  In May 1988, Cortez-Collazo died in Puerto Rico by the side of her daughter Lydia, with whom she had been living the last years of her life.
  A plaque at the monument to the Jayuya Uprising participants in Mayagüez, Puerto Rico, honors the women of the Puerto Rican Nationalist Party. Rosa Cortez-Collazo's name is on the ninth line of the third plate.
  Oscar Collazo continued to participate in activities related to the independence movement. On February 21, 1994, he died of a stroke.
caption: Plaque honoring the women of the Puerto Rican Nationalist Party
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