Harrison Forman Diary, Cuba, 1960-61
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- 1960; 1961
- Description
About one year after revolutionary forces led by Fidel Castro overthrew the government of Dictator Fulgencio Batista, Harrison Forman, photojournalist, travelled to Cuba and wrote in this diary about his experience. At that time, tension between Cuba and the United States was at its height, with economic embargos placed by the U.S. against the Castro regime, in response to hundreds of millions of dollars in U.S. property and private businesses were nationalized by Castro. Forman notes the revolutionary slogans targeting the U.S. urging Cubans to buy Cuban rather than U.S. products. He observes the substandard living conditions and mentions though Havana is a beautiful city, its modern facilities are failing. Despite Castro's anti-American sentiment, Forman observes that the Cuban people are friendly, feel badly that Cuban and U.S. relations have deteriorated, and worry about the ties to Russia, the absence of tourists, and what will happen when the remaining U.S. imports are deplet
The diaries are part of the Harrison Forman Papers 1931-1974 housed at the Special Collections & University Archives, University of Oregon Libraries. UWM Libraries received the dairies on a loan from the Special Collections & University Archives at the University of Oregon Libraries and digitized them to accompany the digital collection of Forman's photographs. The diaries were digitized to provide research materials for the Forman's negatives scanned as part of the NEH grant project "Saving and Sharing the AGS Library's Historic Nitrate Negative Images."
- Creator
Forman, Harrison, 1904-1978
- Partner
- Recollection Wisconsin
- Contributing Institution
- University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
- Collection
- Harrison Forman Papers, 1931-1974
- Subjects
- Forman, Harrison, 1904-1978
Cuba--History--Revolution, 1959
Economic sanctions, American--Cuba
Cuba--Foreign relations--United States
Soviet Union--Foreign relations--Cuba
Cuba--Social conditions
Cuba --Economic policy
Cuba--Politics and government
Cuba--Social life and customs - Type
- text
- Format
- ManuscriptsVolumes (documents by form)
- Language
- English
- Rights
- https://uwm.edu/libraries/digital-collections/copyright-digcoll/
- Chicago citation style
- Forman, Harrison, 1904-1978. Harrison Forman Diary, Cuba, 1960-61. 1960; 1961. Retrieved from the Digital Public Library of America, http://collections.lib.uwm.edu/cdm/ref/collection/forman/id/20. (Accessed March 29, 2024.)
- APA citation style
- Forman, Harrison, 1904-1978, (1960; 1961) Harrison Forman Diary, Cuba, 1960-61. Retrieved from the Digital Public Library of America, http://collections.lib.uwm.edu/cdm/ref/collection/forman/id/20
- MLA citation style
- Forman, Harrison, 1904-1978. Retrieved from the Digital Public Library of America <http://collections.lib.uwm.edu/cdm/ref/collection/forman/id/20>.