Proclamation Against Discrimination

This article is about a Cuban anti-discrimination campaign. For the United Nations proclamation, see Declaration on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination.

The Proclamation Against Discrimination was a retroactively-titled speech given by Fidel Castro on March 23, 1959, that outlined the need for a "battle against racial discrimination" in Cuban society. The following campaign resulted in a series of laws drafted in 1959 and 1960, outlawing the remaining legal forms of racial segregation in Cuba. This was done by desegregating beaches, parks, and abolishing private social clubs, and private schools.

The campaign came to an end with the public mourning of black literacy workers killed during the 1961 Cuban literacy campaign. Cuban officials began to allude that racism had been eradicated from Cuban society, as evidenced by the equal participation of black literacy workers in the literacy campaign, and the national mourning of black martyrs.

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