Berny's photos with the keyword: Morua

1955 Plymouth Savoy

19 May 2020 22 2 399
....and a statue of Don Martin Morua Delgado (1856-1910). He was Cuba’s first black Senate president after the country’s war for independence against Spanish rule in the 1890s. Son of an African-slave mother, Ines Delgado, and Spanish father, Francisco Morúa, Martín Morúa Delgado espoused both anti-slavery sentiments and exemplified ideas of success through meritocracy among Afro-Cubans.