Hotel Theresa place
also: Hotel Teresa, the Teresa, this hotel
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When Fidel Castro came uptown to Harlem, the white terracotta facade of Hotel Teresa on 7th Avenue and West 125th Street, the Waldorf of Harlem, was brightly lit like a Hollywood movie premiere. Outside the hotel entrance, a boisterous crow…
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incapable of providing hospitality to world leaders, Castro fumed, perhaps the UN should be moved. But then Castro turned his humiliation into a propaganda triumph. And I'm sure this left all of them seething. As the Cuban delegation was pr…
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with the operators of the Hotel Teresa. The tallest building in Harlem, the 13-story hotel, was lofty but a little worn down. It was a landmark in the black community. In its heyday, it had accommodated a glittering array of African-America…
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In June of 1938, Joe Louis celebrated his heavyweight championship victory over Max Slimling, Nazi Germany's great white hope at the Teresa, as thousands of fans cheered on in the streets outside. When word spread that the Cuban delegation …
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But Woods, an elderly man who had grown up in Jim Crow, South Carolina, knew what it was like to be denied a roof over your head. Woods stood his ground and opened the doors of Harlem's finest hotel to the Castro delegation. Quote, we don't…
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that he wanted to help, and he did. Young Harlem activists also rallied around Castro, like Preston Wilcox, who was among those cheering the Cuban leader outside the Teresa. Wilcox saw a spiritual connection between Fidel's decision to come…
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It sparked a wave of popular interest in the Cuban cause that led to the formation of the Fair Play for Cuba Committee. Within six months, the committee had enrolled 7,000 members in 27 adult chapters across the country and had struck a cho…
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The Fair Play for Cuba Committee, FPCC, organized a party in his honor at the hotel's ballroom. Among the guests was Allen Ginsberg, Langston Hughes, and C. Wright Mills, whose own impassioned defense of the Cuban Revolution, Listen Yankee,…
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The propagandist insisted it was from the very beginning, amounting a victory of sorts for Washington hardliners. But there was also a glow around Castro as he and his entourage settled into the Hotel Teresa. It was the dawn of the 1960s. T…
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wearing a long black leather coat and tie, swept past the press pack in the hotel lobby and whisked to Fidel's suite on the ninth floor. Fidel invited Malcolm to sit next to him on the bed, the only comfortable oasis in the room. The revolu…
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behind the palace, followed by a second explosion within an hour. Later, a third bomb, more powerful than the other two, rocked Havana. CIA-sponsored terror campaign aimed at killing Castro and destroying his government had already began to…
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The afternoon of October 12, 1960, Senator John F. Kennedy brought his presidential campaign to Harlem, speaking to a large crowd from a platform erected in front of the hotel. Kennedy was well aware that Castro had just been there. JFK was…
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that were shaking the world. He did not want to appear naive about communism, but he was even more concerned that the U.S. be on the right side of history by supporting aspirations of people in Latin America, Africa, and Asia after they thr…
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where Kennedy was joined on the platform by a formidable supporting cast of Democrat dignitaries, including Eleanor Roosevelt and Congressman Powell. The presidential contender sounded more like a supporter of the bearded revolutionary in w…
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He went on to say, behind the fact of Castro's coming to this hotel, Khrushchev coming to Castro, there is another great traveler in the world, and that is the travel of world revolution, a world in turmoil. I am delighted to come to Harlem…