Word: cuba
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...hearings, the quality of discussion was curiously uneven. It was clear, for example, that the radical Negro civil rights lawyer, Conrad Lynn, was eager to discuss his view that Negroes in America should arm themselves in self-defense, and to explain why Cuba's Inter-racial society might seem utopian to Americans who had suffered discrimination all their lives...
...Committee's counsel, Alfred M. Nittles '36, was more interested in the organizations to which Lynn belonged than in his reasons for joining them. Nittle's questions about Cuba dealt mostly with Americans Lynn might have seen there, and not at all with the country itself. Only occasionally was the witness provided room to express a substantive point of view, and then his statements were overlooked...
...less to lose than many of the other people the Committee interrogates. His clientele is stable, and provides him with enough money to live comfortably. His most important case concerns an American Negro, Robert F. Williams, who is wanted for kidnapping in this country and has exiled himself in Cuba. In fact, at the rally he had speculated that his appearance in Washington might reflect the Committee's effort "to frighten integrationists who are more radical than Martin Luther King...
...Committee was particularly interested in establishing the relationship between Americans who had travelled to Cuba illegally, or those who had over stayed the time allotted on the time allotted on their visa, and people still living in the United States. This was the point of the questions it had asked Elizabeth Southerland, whose job at Simon and Schuster gave the Committee an additional opportunity to imply connections between pro-Castro propagandists and people who are employed in the mass media...
Consequently, the Committee drew spon the fact that Lynn had recently visited Robert Williams in Cuba after obtaining permission from the State Department. "Did you talk with him about the route he took?" Nittles inquired. (After leaving the United States, Williams had reportedly determined to settle in Canada, like the men who had escaped slavery before the Civil War. When he heard that the Canadian police were going to extradite him to America, he travelled on to Cuba...