Fair Play for Cuba Committee
The Fair Play for Cuba Committee (FPCC) was an activist group set up in New York City by Robert Taber in April 1960.[1][2][3]
History
[edit]The FPCC's purpose was to provide grassroots support for the Cuban Revolution against attacks by the United States government, once Fidel Castro began openly admitting his commitment to Marxism and began the expropriation and nationalization of Cuban assets belonging to U.S. corporations. The FPCC opposed the Bay of Pigs invasion of 1961, the imposition of the United States embargo against Cuba, and was sympathetic to the Cuban view during the Cuban Missile Crisis of 1962. Its members were placed under surveillance by the FBI.[4]
Subsidiary Fair Play for Cuba groups were set up throughout the United States and Canada.[5][6]
By December 1963, the Fair Play for Cuba Committee was defunct, with FBI investigations concluding in 1964.[7]
Members and sponsors
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- James Baldwin
- Jack Barnes
- Carleton Beals
- Simone de Beauvoir
- Truman Capote
- Robert G. Colodny
- Cedric Cox
- Farrell Dobbs
- Lawrence Ferlinghetti
- Waldo Frank
- Richard Thomas Gibson (13 May 1931—?)[8][9]
- Allen Ginsberg
- Richard Greeman
- Joseph Hansen
- Donald S. Harrington
- Calvin Hicks
- James Higgins
- Vincent T. Lee
- Norman Mailer
- Alexander Meiklejohn[10]
- C. Wright Mills
- Wendy Nakashima
- Harvey O'Connor
- Lee Harvey Oswald
- Linus Pauling[10]
- Nanette Rainone
- Jake Rosen
- Alan Sagner
- Jean-Paul Sartre
- Pat Schulz
- Ed Shaw
- Marion Stokes
- I. F. Stone
- Paul Sweezy
- Robert Taber
- Kenneth Tynan
- Willard Uphaus
- Bert Wainer
- Howard Wallace
- Robert F. Williams
- William Appleman Williams
- William Worthy[4]
- Thomas Arthur Vallee
- Victor Thomas Vicente (FBI informant)[11]
Archives
[edit]- George E. Rennar Papers. 1933–1972. 37.43 cubic feet. At the Labor Archives of Washington, University of Washington Libraries Special Collections. Contains materials about the Fair Play for Cuba Committee.
References
[edit]- ^ Gott, Richard, Cuba: a new History, Yale University Press, 2004, 177–178
- ^ Cassels, Louis (June 17, 1961). "Fair Play for Cuba Committee Activated". Lodi News-Sentinel. Lodi, California. UPI. p. 11. Retrieved May 29, 2013.
- ^ Edson, Peter (October 21, 1962). "Edson in Washington; Defectors to Castro". The Park City Daily News. Bowling Green, Kentucky. NEA. p. 21. Retrieved May 29, 2013.
- ^ a b Cold War Stories: William Worthy, the Right to Travel, and Afro-American Reporting on the Cuban Revolution (PDF), archived from the original (PDF) on 2020-07-09, retrieved 2020-08-13
- ^ Gosse, Van, Where the Boys Are: Cuba, Cold War America, and the Making of the New Left, London: Verso, 1993.
- ^ "Pro-Castro Organization Now Defunct". Sarasota Herald-Tribune. Vol. 39, no. 87. Sarasota, Florida: Lindsay Newspapers, Inc. UPI. December 29, 1963. p. 20. Retrieved May 18, 2017.
- ^ https://fau.digital.flvc.org/islandora/object/fau%3A9815 Cold War comes to Ybor City: Tampa Bay's chapter of the Fair Play for Cuba Committee
- ^ 104-10001-10015 2022 RELEASE UNDER THE PRESIDENT JOHN F. KENNEDY ASSASSINATION RECORDS ACT OF 1992. UNCLASSIFIED. FRNAL. BONLY? CON. INITIAL SECRET. archives.gov
- ^ "FBI - HSCA Subject Files: Richard Thomas Gibson". maryferrell.org. Retrieved 7 February 2023.
- ^ a b "Fair Play for Cuba Committee". 1961.
- ^ https://www.archives.gov/files/research/jfk/releases/2018/104-10308-10163.pdf [bare URL PDF]
