Jane Wittman Van De Bogart collection 1958-2001 1960-1997

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Jane Wittman Van De Bogart collection 1958-2001 1960-1997

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Printed materials, correspondence, photographs, and slides related to Van De Bogart’s travels to and lifelong interest in Cuba. The collection also includes an official US State Department letter and other documents related to Van De Bogart’s efforts to retain her passport.

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USF Tampa Library - Special & Digital Collections

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Castro, Fidel, 1926-2016

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Fidel Castro (b. August 13, 1926, Birán, Cuba–d. November 25, 2016, Havana, Cuba) was a Cuban communist revolutionary and politician who governed the Republic of Cuba as Prime Minister from 1959 to 1976 and then as President from 1976 to 2008. Under his administration, Cuba became a one-party communist state, while industry and business were nationalized and state socialist reforms were implemented throughout society. The son of a wealthy Spanish farmer, Castro adopted leftist anti-imper...

Van De Bogart, Jane

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Social advocate. Involved with many social causes, including: the Caribbean-Latin America Support Project (CLASP), NAMES Project AIDS Quilt in Havana, Woodstock Women in Black, Veterans for Peace, Saugerties Committee for Peace and Social Justice, and Quilters for Peace. Van De Bogart made five trips to Cuba, often in defiance of the U.S. government's travel ban. One such trip, taken in 1964, prompted the U.S. State Department to demand that she turn in her passport. She...