Juan Gualberto Gómez, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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Afro-Cuban revolutionary leader in the Cuban War of Independence
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Place of Birth: Matanzas Province, Cuba
About Juan Gualberto Gómez
- Juan Gualberto Gómez Ferrer (July 12, 1854 – March 5, 1933) was an Afro-Cuban revolutionary leader in the Cuban War of Independence against Spain.
- He was a "close collaborator of [José] Martí's," and alongside him helped plan the uprising and unite the island's black population behind the rebellion.
- He was an activist for independence and a journalist who worked on and later founded several pivotal anti-royalist and pro-racial equality newspapers.
- He authored numerous works on liberty and racial justice in Latin America as well. In his later years, he was a "journalist-politician." He defended the revolution against racism and U.S.
- imperialism and upheld Martí's legacy in print (often under the pseudonym "G") as he served the Cuban state; he was a part of the Committee of Consultations that drafted and amended the Constitution of 1901, and was a representative and senator in the Cuban legislature.
- He is best remembered as "the most conspicuous" Afro-Cuban activist leader of the 1890s independence struggle and "one of the revolution's great ideologues."
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