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 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]

Vincent T. Lee shut down the national Fair Play for Cuba Committee in December 1963 when its landlord evicted the group from its national office; the notoriety accorded to it, following the Kennedy assassination, made it impossible for the committee to continue its work. The group continued to exist in Canada and still published several pamphlets until late 1964.

Members (incomplete)

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. 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. 39 (87). Sarasota, Florida: Lindsay Newspapers, Inc. UPI. December 29, 1963. p. 20. Retrieved May 18, 2017.

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