On Being Black in Cuba: Before and After the Revolution Carlos Moore, Activist and Scholar TUESDAY SEPT 22, 4:30

Tuesday, September 22, 2009. 4:30 pm
On Being Black in Cuba: Before and After the Revolution
Carlos Moore, Activist and Scholar
Location: 34 Hillhouse Avenue, Luce Hall, Room 202
Born the son of Jamaican sugar workers on a US-owned sugar plantation in eastern Cuba, Carlos Moore was part of the US Black radical movement in the 1960s and its counterpart in Cuba. In the 1960s, he was jailed twice by Cuban state security for publicly and privately protesting the actions of racist revolutionaries and the efforts of the Cuban government to cover up rather than take on continuing racism and discrimination. Moore discusses these events and his personal experiences with such figures as Robert Williams, Fidel Castro, and Malcolm X. Book signing to follow. This event is co-sponsored with the Council on Latin American and Iberian Studies.

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