Cuban Refugee Center records 1960-1978.
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The Cuban Refugee Program was authorized by the president of the United States in February 1961. Federal assistance for Cuban refugees had begun in 1960 under president Eisenhower in response to the growing number of Cubans fleeing the Castro regime. President John F. Kennedy, recognizing that the situation was beyond the scope of individual states and volunteer agencies, assigned responsibility to the Secretary of Health, Education and Welfare (HEW), at the time Abraham Ribicoff, who delegated ...