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2. Castro in New York
- Collection:
- Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
- Contributers:
- Guy,Rosa (Author)
- Format:
- Journal Article
- Publication Date:
- Fall, 1996
- Published:
- Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press
- Location:
- African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- Journal Title:
- Black Renaissance/Renaissance Noire
- Journal Title Details:
- 1(1) : 10-19
- Notes:
- "When Fidel Castro came to New York in 1960 for the 18th General Assembly at the United Nations, he was flushed with his victory over the dictator Fulgencio Batista, and he had signed the first land-reform bill expropriating land from foreign monopolies to redistribute among landless peasants. That, of course, was a challenge to the United Fruit Company and the United States, and for it he was painted red. When he arrived in New York, he was insulted at the Shelbourne Hotel in midtown, and so he took all of his group and went up to Harlem, to the Hotel Theresa." (author)
3. Degrees of freedom: Louisiana and Cuba after slavery
- Collection:
- Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
- Contributers:
- Scott,Rebecca Jarvis (Author)
- Format:
- Book, Whole
- Publication Date:
- 2005
- Published:
- Cambridge, MA: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press
- Location:
- African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- Notes:
- 365 p., As Louisiana and Cuba emerged from slavery in the late 19th Century, each faced the question of what rights former slaves could claim. Observes the people, places, legislation and leadership that shaped how these societies adjusted to the abolition of slavery. The two distinctive worlds also come together, as Cuban exiles take refuge in New Orleans in the 1880s, and black soldiers from Louisiana garrison small towns in eastern Cuba during the 1899 U.S. military occupation.