Source

State Archives of Florida, Series S325

Description

A plan outlining the assistance and services offered to Cuban refugees in Florida. The packet also contains blank forms that were completed by caseworkers to track services rendered to refugees.

Date

1961

Creator

Florida. State Department of Public Welfare

Format

Plans (reports)

Coverage

Postwar Florida (1945-1968)

Topic

Politics And Government

Subjects

Cuban Refugee Center
Cubans--United States
Florida. State Department of Public Welfare
Refugees--Cuba
Refugees--United States
United States. Cuban Refugee Program
United States. Department of Health, Education, and Welfare

Geographic Term

Florida

General Note

The Cuban Refugee Assistance Program (CRA) was a refugee assistance program brought about by the mass exodus of Cubans from their homeland following the Revolution of 1959. From the early 1960s to the mid-1990s, more than one million Cubans immigrated to the United States. The majority settled in South Florida. The CRA provided healthcare, employment and educational services to Cuban refugees upon their arrival in the United States. The program, approved by President John F. Kennedy in 1961, was administered by the Florida Department of Public Welfare until 1974.