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Fidel Castro goes to Harlem

Yesterday In Travel
Yesterday In Travel
Episode • Feb 16, 2021 • 41m

On today's episode we explore a moment of travel history from our own backyard—New York City. We get into the story of when Fidel Castro visited Harlem in September 1961. This was not only a big moment in travel history—few foreign leaders, if any, had paid a visit to Harlem before Casto—but it also tells us a lot about racial politics during the Cold War.

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