The Cuban literacy campaign (Spanish: Campaña Nacional de Alfabetización en Cuba) was an eight-month long effort to abolish illiteracy in Cuba after the...

until her death in 2007. The FMC was deeply involved in the 1961 Cuban literacy campaign and in supplying workers after the mass exodus of trained labor...

were named after the brigadistas that contributed to the Cuban Literacy Campaign. Like their Cuban mentors, the brigadistas did not only teach the rural...

she moved to Cuba and participated in the Cuban literacy campaign and Federation of Cuban Women. Bunke was recruited for Bolivian Campaign, Che Guevara's...

countryside to teach their fellow Cubans how to read. The Literacy Campaign served two purposes: to educate every Cuban and teach them to read to give those...

Women in the Cuban Revolution were active in a wide variety of roles. Women's participation in the Cuban Revolution was spurred by decades of oppression...

the 1961 Cuban Literacy Campaign. Her work principally focuses on social justice and literacy in the Americas. Murphy founded The Literacy Project in...

(January 25, 1945 – November 26, 1961) was a Cuban teacher who participated in the Cuban Literacy Campaign of 1961. Born in Sagua la Grande to Manuel Ascunce...

equivalent to 4 years of primary school. Literacy in Romania Likbez Cuban Literacy Campaign Nicaraguan Literacy Campaign Brucan, Silviu (1993). The Wasted Generation:...

Catherine Murphy, about the youngest women teachers of the 1961 Cuban Literacy Campaign. In 1961, Cuba aimed to eradicate illiteracy in one year. It sent 250,000...

October Cuba 22 December On 22 December 1961, Cuba declared itself a Territory Free of Illiteracy (Territorio Libre de Analfabetismo) (see Cuban Literacy Campaign)...

Cardenal traveled to Cuba to study the success of the Cuban literacy campaign.: 74  Following the visit, Cardenal invited Cuban literacy experts to Nicaragua...

later economic initiatives, this campaign was "a remarkable success". By the completion of the Cuban literacy campaign, 707,212 adults had been taught...

of a meeting between Malcolm X and Fidel Castro and praised the Cuban Literacy Campaign. He also said "I am a believer in Malcolm X and his ideology and...

since the 1961 Cuban Literacy Campaign. The 1961 Campaign reduced the illiteracy rate in Cuba from 23.6% to 3.9%. Since that time Cuban educators worked...

Following the Cuban Revolution of 1959, but more importantly after the regime's October 1960 move to nationalize industries, the first wave of Cuban immigrants...

ɣorjaˈɾan]; 6 February 1932 – 28 October 1959) was a Cuban revolutionary. One of the major figures of the Cuban Revolution, he was considered second only to Fidel...

such as literacy, infant mortality and life expectancy. Cuba has a universal health care system which provides free medical treatment to all Cuban citizens...

The consolidation of the Cuban Revolution is a period in Cuban history typically defined as starting in the aftermath of the revolution in 1959 and ending...

Maestra about the Cuban Literacy Campaign. Guillard's spent her childhood in Santiago de Cuba. She participated in the Cuban Literacy Campaign when she was...

veterans of the Cuban forces deployed during that period. Then comes two civil contingents, one honoring the 1961 Cuban Literacy Campaign final march to...

internal explosion of USS Maine in Havana Harbor in Cuba, leading to United States intervention in the Cuban War of Independence. The war led to the United...

1987. In September 1979, Cardenal traveled to Cuba to study the success of the Cuban literacy campaign, which Cardenal described as a source of admiration...

released as the arrest of a prominent Cuban writer could have created an international scandal. Cuban literacy campaign Guevarism Zayas, Manuel (20 January...

of a country club whose members had all fled the country. The Cuban Literacy Campaign had just been launched, and with the inspiration of extending the...

Germany's. Cuba was instrumental in the Nicaraguan Literacy Campaign. Nicaragua was a country with a very high rate of illiteracy, but the campaign succeeded...

1961 she headed the CMQ television and radio department of the Cuban literacy campaign. In 2003 she was awarded a lifetime Premio Nacional de Televisión [es]...

literacy as a major challenge for the vocational education sector. The "campaign model" used by the Literacy for Life Foundation originated in Cuba as...

Afro-Cubans or Black Cubans are Cubans of full or partial sub-Saharan African ancestry. The term Afro-Cuban can also refer to historical or cultural elements...

the first political party for non-white Cubans. In the aftermath of the Cuban war of independence, Afro-Cuban men, many of whom were veterans, expected...