Cuban Refugee Center records 1960-1978.

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Cuban Refugee Center records 1960-1978.

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The collection consists of documents and other materials created and collected by the Cuban Refugee Center (CRC) established in Miami in 1960 to assist Cubans arriving at the United States as political refugees.

107.00 boxes (48 linear feet).

eng,

spa,

University of Miami, Otto G. Richter Library

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SNAC Resource ID: 6948996

University of Miami, Otto G. Richter Library

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Cuban Refugee Center.

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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 ...