by Jerry A. Sierra
Don José Julián Martí y Pérez
teacher, poet, organizer, essayist, newspaperman
one of the great writers of the Hispanic world
In 1892 Martí dedicated himself exclusively to planning and organizing what became Cuba's third war of independence.
Martí died in battle shortly after the war began. He is known in Cuba as the father of the Cuban Revolution.
José Martí: A Full Bio | A Short Bio | The José Martí Timeline | Books About Martí
Our America | Montecristi Manifesto | My Race | On Maceo | Our Ideas | The Cuban Revolutionary Party | Platform of the Cuban Revolutionary Party (CRP) | Secret Statutes of the CRP | Order to Revolt | A Town Sets a Black Man on Fire
Martí in La Nación (Buenos Aires)
Religion | Mark Twain | Violence in New Orleans
"Guantanamera"
and Martí's "Versos Sensillos"
- An excerpt from Anne Fountain's
Versos Sencillos: A Dual-Language Edition |
TV Martí | Is Martí related to Cesar Romero? | Photos of Martí |
To Máximo Gómez, in which he resigns from the revolutionary movement in 1884 | Last letter to his mother, March 25 1895 | Unfinished letter to his friend Manuel Mercado, May 18 1895 |
July 20 1882 / June 18 1894 / June 22 1894 / January 19 1895 |
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