In the spring of 1972, this Black single mother left her young son behind to travel to Cuba with the Fifth Contingent of the Venceremos Brigade, an organization that had been founded in 1969 in opposition to the U.S. blockade on Cuba, and one of its specific purposes was challenging the travel restrictions imposed by the United States Government.
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