James Baldwin and Britain

'Racialism in Cuba', by Tom McGrath

Source: International Times

INTERNATIONAL TIMES

1967

Tom McGrath, ‘Racialism in Cuba’, International Times, Feb 13th- Feb 26th, 1967, p. 1

On Robert F William’s fleeing to Cuba: ‘He had been one of the founders of the now-defunct Fair Play for Cuba Committee in the United States, eight of whose original 30 founding members were Negroes, including such well-known writers as James Baldwin, Julien Mayfeild and John Killens. Such Negro participation in a movement not directly related to the civil rights struggle was virtually unprecedented’.