Sociedad La Union Marti~Maceo

When local segration forced the withdrawal

of Afro-Cubans from El Club Nacional Cubano,

an organization of black and white Cubans

involved in Cuban independence, Afro-Cuban

cigarmakers founded a society in 1900 as Los

Libres Pensadores de Marti y Maceo. Ruperto

Pedroso, well known Afro-Cuban patriot, was

among ...