José Celso Barbosa, Puerto Rican physician, sociologist, and politician (died 1921)

José Celso Barbosa

Puerto Rican politician

José Celso Barbosa Alcala was a Puerto Rican physician, sociologist and political leader. Known as the father of the statehood movement in Puerto Rico, Barbosa was the first Puerto Rican, and one of the first people of African descent to earn a medical degree in the United…