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
The FPCC's purpose was to provide
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
- James Baldwin
- Jack Barnes
- Carleton Beals
- Simone de Beauvoir
- Truman Capote
- Robert G. Colodny
- Cedric Cox
- Farrell Dobbs
- Lawrence Ferlinghetti
- Waldo Frank
- 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
- 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
- ^ 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), 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
- archives.gov
- 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]