Fair Play for Cuba Committee explained

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.

Subsidiary Fair Play for Cuba groups were set up throughout the United States and Canada.^{[4] [5]}

By December 1963, the Fair Play for Cuba Committee was defunct, with FBI investigations concluding in 1964.^[6]

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.

Notes and References

1. [Richard Gott|Gott, Richard]
2. News: Cassels. Louis. Fair Play for Cuba Committee Activated. May 29, 2013. Lodi News-Sentinel. June 17, 1961. UPI. Lodi, California. 11.
3. News: Edson. Peter. Edson in Washington; Defectors to Castro. May 29, 2013. The Park City Daily News. October 21, 1962. NEA. Bowling Green, Kentucky. 21.
4. Gosse, Van, Where the Boys Are: Cuba, Cold War America, and the Making of the New Left, London: Verso, 1993.
5. News: December 29, 1963 . Pro-Castro Organization Now Defunct . Sarasota Herald-Tribune . 39 . 87 . Sarasota, Florida . Lindsay Newspapers, Inc. . UPI . 20 . May 18, 2017.
6. 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