Political organizer and Educator Blanca Canales was a key member of the Partido Nacionalista, alongside its leader Pedro Albizu Campos. She was first acquainted with political organizing because of her father, who was a member of the Partido Unión de Puerto Rico. She graduated from the University of Puerto Rico, where she first got to know the work and activism of Pedro Albizu Campos and joined the Partido Nacionalista in 1931. In 1950, she was among the nationalists who revolted against the United States in the town of Jayuya, where Canales led a group to the plaza and rose the Puerto Rican flag – then illegal because of a Gag Law established in 1943. Canales and the group kept armed forces out of Jayuya for three days and later surrendered. After 17 years in prison, Canales was granted a pardon by Puerto Rican governor Roberto Sánchez Vilella. She died in her hometown of Jayuya un her childhood home, which is today the town’s museum.