fuckyeahlatinamericanhistory:
Mariana Grajales Coello (d. 1893) was an Afro-Cuban revolutionary and the mother of renowned Cuban patriot Antonio Maceo Grajales. Born in Santiago de Cuba of Dominican parents, Mariana and her sons played pivotal roles in Cuba’s various independence wars of the late nineteenth century. She encouraged her sons’ patriotism and worked providing medical care alongside her daughters for those wounded in battle. She died in exile in Jamaica, where she had moved after the end of the Ten Years’ War in 1878. Most of her sons, including Antonio, died in combat. She was highly praised in print by José Marti. Today one of Cuba’s airports is named after her and she is the subject of two different monuments on the island.
(via fuckyeahlatinamericanhistory)
cubabeisbol:
Happy 101st birthday, Cuban baseball legend Conrado “Connie” Marrero.
The oldest living former major-league baseball player still lives in Havana, Cuba, where he has to use a wheelchair, is hard of hearing and can no longer see.
life:
In 1960, LIFE magazine assigned Eve Arnold, who died in January 2012 at the age of 99, to document the days and nights of Malcolm X, the controversial and intensely charismatic public face of the Nation of Islam.
“I am always delighted by the manipulation that goes on between a subject and photographer when the subject knows about the camera and how it can best be used to his advantage, Malcolm was brilliant in this silent collaboration.”
The unspoken teamwork, in a sense, that Arnold describes and celebrates went beyond simple access. Instead, she remembers Malcolm X finding her subjects to photograph, arranging shots and ensuring that she had interviews for the text.
this is an amazing photograph.
(via topazthesong)
fuckyeahlatinamericanhistory:
Cuba released these stamps in commemoration of the 150th anniversary of José Martí’s birth in 2003.
fuckyeahlatinamericanhistory:
The national flag of Cuba hangs alongside the Cuban coat of arms and the revolutionary flag of Yara (also known as the flag of La Demajagua) inside the Cuban National Assembly. Created in the mid-nineteenth century by the Venezuelan Narciso López, who led a few unsuccessful attempts to liberate the island from Spanish rule, the current flag of Cuba was adopted as the nation’s national emblem upon independence in the first decade of the twentieth century. The flag of Yara was created by Cuban revolutionary Carlos Manuel de Céspedes during the Ten Years War (1868-1878), and is named after the Grito de Yara (Cry of Yara), Céspedes’ proclamation of Cuban independence in the town of Yara in 1868.
ourpresidents:
With the passing of Vaclav Havel last month, here is a candid image of the former Czech president with Bill Clinton. The two friends are having dinner and a beer with Madeleine Albright and others at the Golden Tiger Pub in Prague. 1/11/94.
Thanks to John, one of our archivists at the Clinton Library, for locating it in the holdings and including this note, “I wanted to send you a cool image that shows the wonderful relationship these two leaders shared.”
Clinton Library photo ID: P11302-15a
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(via todaysdocument)
cubabeisbol:
A 1946 photo of Orestes “Minnie” Miñoso, right, in his rookie Negro league season, with New York Cubans teammates Chiflan Clark. left, and Rodolfo Fernandez and an unidentified woman outside the team’s Harlem storefront office.
The photo was up for auction at Lelands in December 2004.
cubabeisbol:
Night game at El Gran Stadium of Havana.
This photo was part of The Sporting News archive that was up for auction at Mears Monthy Auction in November 2010.
fuckyeahlatinamericanhistory:
Raúl Castro photographed at a Hanukkah event held in Havana last year.
todaysdocument:
Banned from Flight
Jazz singer Ella Fitzgerald, an international singing sensation, faced discrimination when on tour. En route to a concert from Honolulu to Australia, Ella Fitzgerald was denied the right to board a Pan American flight, because she was African American. She filed this complaint against Pan American. Page 3 is shown.
Complaint from Ella Fitzgerald, John Lewis, Georgiana Henry, and Norman Granz v. Pan American World Airways, Inc., 12/23/1954
fuckyeahlatinamericanhistory:
République Fédérative des Etats-Unis Méxicains, ca. 1832
This French map includes a reference to the short-lived Republic of Fredonia, established in present-day Nacogdoches, Texas, on December 21, 1826, at a time when the area was still Mexican territory. Fredonia was the first attempt by the US-born settlers of the territory of Coahuila y Tejas to secede from Mexico.
Today In Latin American History
The Fredonian Rebellion (1826-1827) was the first attempt by US-born settlers in what was then the Mexican state of Coahuila y Tejas to secede from Mexico and create a sovereign nation. The settlers, led by Haden Edwards, declared the independence of what they called the Republic of Fredonia in what is now Nacogdoches, Texas on December 21, 1826. The short-lived republic encompassed the land the Mexican government had granted to Edwards through the empresario system in 1825, and included areas that had been previously settled. Edwards’ actions soon alienated these established residents, and the increasing hostilities between them and settlers recruited by Edwards led the Mexican government to revoke Edwards’ empresariocontract.
In late November 1826, a group of Edwards’ supporters had taken control of the region by arresting and removing from office several government officials affiliated with the established residents. A month later, the Edwards supporters declared their independence from Mexico. Although the nearby Cherokee tribe, which had settled the area some years earlier, initially signed a treaty to support the new republic, overtures from Mexican authorities and US-born empresario Stephen F. Austin convinced Cherokee leaders to repudiate the rebellion. On January 31, 1827, a force of over 100 Mexican soldiers and 250 militiamen from Austin’s colony marched into Nacogdoches to restore order. Many of the participants, including Edwards, fled to the United States.
The rebellion led Mexican president Guadalupe Victoria to increase the military presence in the area. Fearing that the United States hoped to gain control of the area, the Mexican government severely curtailed immigration to Coahuila y Tejas. This new immigration law was bitterly opposed by US-born colonists and caused increasing dissatisfaction with Mexican rule. Some historians consider the Fredonian Rebellion to be the beginning of the Texas Revolution. (source as above and wikipedia)
fuckyeahlatinamericanhistory:
Today In Latin American History
Argentine president Fernando de la Rúa resigns from office and flees Buenos Aires’ Casa Rosada aboard a helicopter on December 20, 2001, following the collapse of the Argentine economy and popular uprising against the country’s government.
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