This pamphlet dates from the winter of 1959 when Nancy Macaulay first visited her husband Neill Macaulay in Cuba. Later a UF professor and historian of Latin America, Neill had just spent the previous six months fighting the Batista dictatorship in Cuba, first by helping supply guns to the 26th of July Movement in the western provinces and then by joining a small guerrilla group in Pinar del Río that had just launched operations in the fall of 1958. In multiple ways, the pamphlet speaks to how desperately the progressive middle-class professionals who led the 26th of July Movement wanted Americans and others to identify with and understand the need for a revolution in Cuba. Neill and Nancy Macaulay Collection, Smathers Library Special Collections, University of Florida.
