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- Title
William Worthy's Passport: Travel Restrictions and the Cold War Struggle for Civil and Human Rights.
- Authors
Lovelace Jr, H. Timothy
- Abstract
The article details the legal problems encountered by African American foreign correspondent William Worthy when he traveled to Cuba from the United States and promptly returned using a birth certificate instead of a passport, in violation of the 1961 travel ban issued by the U.S. State Department and the 1952 Immigration and Nationality Act (INA). As a reporter for the "Baltimore Afro-America" and an active member of the activist group Fair Play for Cuba Committee, it was reported the the U.S. government targeted Worthy for his public support of the administration of Cuban communist leader Fidel Castro.
- Subjects
UNITED States; WORTHY, William; AFRICAN American journalists; PASSPORTS -- Government policy; LEGAL status of foreign correspondents; UNITED States. Immigration &; Nationality Act; TRAVEL policy; CUBA-United States relations; ACTIVISTS; TWENTIETH century; AFRICAN American history; ACTIONS &; defenses (Law); HISTORY; BIOGRAPHY (Literary form)
- Publication
Journal of American History, 2016, Vol 103, Issue 1, p107
- ISSN
0021-8723
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1093/jahist/jaw009