The following is a guest post by Kaycee Conover, a former intern with the Digital Resources Division of the Law Library of Congress. She is a graduate of Tufts University and is currently pursuing a dual master’s in history and library & information science at Simmons University.
A revolutionary leader who has since been heralded as a national hero of the Philippines, José Rizal posthumously contributed to the passing of the Philippine Organic Act of 1902 (32 Stat. 691