Lyn Smith Cuba collection [sound recording] : oral histories of Cuban women. 1988 and 1990.

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Lyn Smith Cuba collection [sound recording] : oral histories of Cuban women. 1988 and 1990.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/37489559

The Lyn Smith Cuba collection consists of ninety-two recordings containing nearly 100 hours of oral histories of sixty Cuban women, many of whom participated in the revolutionary struggles of the 1950s. Conducted in 1988 and 1990 by oral historian Lyn Smith, these interviews present detailed accounts of Cuban women's lives both before and after the revolution. The interviewees, who represent a wide cross-section of the female population, discuss the changes that the revolution brought to their daily lives as well as the important historical events that gave shape to a new Cuba. The Batista regime, Fidel Castro, Che Guevara, the Bay of Pigs and the very influential Federación de Mujeres Cubanas are discussed. In later interviews the women talk about the collapse of the Soviet Union and the subsequent social and economic challenges facing Cuba as a result. Interviewees include Vilma Espin, Cuban civilian resistance worker and wife of Raul Castro and Cuban guerrilla Melba Hernandez. Also features tours of a secondary school, the Granjita Siboney museum, the Museo Histórico 26 de Julio and a discussion of the Instituto Cubano de Amistad con los Pueblos.

92 sound tape reels : analog, 7 1/2 ips, full track ; 10 in.

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Espín Guillois, Vilma 1930-2007

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Hernández, Melba.

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Instituto Cubano de Amistad con los Pueblos

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These files were requested, mostly during the 1970s-1980s by Harold Fruchtbaum, a professor at Columbia University's School of Public Health requested these files, mostly during the 1970s-1980s. He worked with Marshall Perlin (peripherally represented in this collection), attorney for Michael Meeropol, son of the Rosenbergs, in efforts to prove that his parents were wrongly convicted. From the guide to the Harold Fruchtbaum Rosenberg Case Collection, circa 1945-circa 2001, (Tamiment ...

Granjita Siboney (Museum)

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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...

Federacion de Mujeres Cubanas

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Smith, Lyn, 1934-....

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At the time of the interviews, Lyn Smith was a freelance oral historian with the Imperial War Museum, Dept. of Sound Records. From the description of Lyn Smith Cuba collection [sound recording] : oral histories of Cuban women. 1988 and 1990. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 37489559 ...

Museo Histórico 26 de Julio (Santiago de Cuba, Cuba)

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Guevara, Che, 1928-1967

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