[Rarebooks] FS: Haitian Refugees broadsheet

[Bob Petrilla]

Haitian Refugees. POLITICAL ASYLUM FOR ALL HAITIAN REFUGEES - 12,000 ARE
WAITING! On April 1980, the Carter Administration has granted political
asylum to 3,500 Cubans. The Government has already accepted thousands of
Vietnames, Cubans and Nicaraguayans as political refugees. Why not the
Haitians?.... NY: Committee for Political Asylum for Haitian Refugees, May,
1980. Original edition. Broadsheet, printed in English on one side and in
Haitian Creole on the other. In part: "All segments of American society,
Blacks, Whites, Spanish people, Jews are on our side....Come and help your
brothers and sisters!...The streets of New York should be filled by
thousands of Haitians and friends. If you don't come out to demonstrate, it
is a lost cause.... Saturday May 3, 1980...Bryant Park, on 40th Street,
between 5th and 6th Ave....." Top edge slightly roughened. 11" x 8.5" Very
Good.
In June 1980, the U.S. State Department estimated that between 300,000 and
400,000 Haitians had entered the USA, according to an internet source.
$50.00

Price includes domestic shipping.  Reciprocal discount to the trade.

Thanks for looking,

Bob


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