Lee Harvey Oswald and others handing out "Fair Play for Cuba" leaflets in New Orleans, August 16, 1963

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

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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References

  1. ^ Gott, Richard, Cuba: a new History, Yale University Press, 2004, 177–178
  2. ^ Cassels, Louis (June 17, 1961). "Fair Play for Cuba Committee Activated". Lodi News-Sentinel. Lodi, California. UPI. p. 11. Retrieved May 29, 2013.
  3. ^ 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.
  4. ^ a b Cold War Stories: William Worthy, the Right to Travel, and Afro-American Reporting on the Cuban Revolution (PDF), retrieved 2020-08-13
  5. ^ Gosse, Van, Where the Boys Are: Cuba, Cold War America, and the Making of the New Left, London: Verso, 1993.
  6. ^ "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.
  7. ^ 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
  8. ^ 104-10001-10015 2022 RELEASE UNDER THE PRESIDENT JOHN F. KENNEDY ASSASSINATION RECORDS ACT OF 1992. UNCLASSIFIED. FRNAL. BONLY? CON. INITIAL SECRET. archives.gov
  9. ^ "FBI - HSCA Subject Files: Richard Thomas Gibson". maryferrell.org. Retrieved 7 February 2023.
  10. ^ "Richard Thomas Gibson, Born 05/13/1931 in California". CaliforniaBirthIndex.org. Retrieved 7 February 2023.
  11. ^ ...RICHARD THOMAS GIBSON, a Black. American journalist, born 5/13/31, at Los Angeles, California... National Archives and Records Administration
  12. ^ Gibson, Richard Thomas (1972). African Liberation Movements: Contemporary Struggles Against White Minority Rule. Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0-19-501617-8.
  13. ^ "Collection: Richard T. Gibson papers". George Washington University. Retrieved 7 February 2023.
  14. ^ Allen, Craig Lanier (2016). "Spies Spying on Spies Spying: The Rive Noire, the "Paris Review", and the Specter of Surveillance in Post-war American Literary Expatriate Paris, 1953-1958". Australasian Journal of American Studies. 35 (1): 29–50. ISSN 1838-9554. JSTOR 44779770. Retrieved 7 February 2023.
  15. ^ Morley, Jefferson (16 May 2018). "What the curious case of Richard Gibson tells us about Lee Harvey Oswald". JFK Facts. Retrieved 7 February 2023.
  16. ^ Notes on Révolution, Gibson and Vergès marxists.org
  17. ^ Burden-Stelly, Charisse (13 September 2018). "'Stoolpigeons' and the Treacherous Terrain of Freedom Fighting". Black Perspectives. African American Intellectual History Society (AAIHS). Retrieved 7 February 2023.
  18. ^ "CIA Reveals Name of Former Spy in JFK Files—And He's Still Alive". History News Network. Retrieved 7 February 2023.
  19. ^ ...RICHARD THOMAS GIBSON, born May 13, 1931, at Los. Angeles, California, was married at Paris, France, on March... archives.gov
  20. ^ "Chapter Eighteen The Reformation of Black New Liberals (1958–1960)". The Indignant Generation: 470–484. 31 December 2010. doi:10.1515/9781400836239-021. ISBN 9781400836239. Retrieved 7 February 2023. Richard Gibson, who returned to the United States to attempt a job as a televi- ... France, other than being fired from Agence France-Presse, ...
  21. ^ Campbell, James (7 January 2006). "The Island affair". The Guardian. Retrieved 7 February 2023. Ellen Wright did not say so outright, but I left with the impression that the presence in Island of Hallucination of a character based on one member of the Café Tournon circle in particular, an African-American writer and journalist called Richard Gibson, was largely behind her decision to withhold the novel.
  22. ^ United States Senate Subcommittee on Internal Security (1961). Fair Play for Cuba Committee: Hearings , Eighty-seventh Congress, First Session ... U.S. Government Printing Office.
  23. ^ a b "Fair Play for Cuba Committee". 1961.
  24. ^ https://www.archives.gov/files/research/jfk/releases/2018/104-10308-10163.pdf
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