Red Runs the Caribbean
- Title:
- Red Runs the Caribbean
- Alternate Title:
- Red Runs the Caribbean
- Collection:
- Persuasive Maps: PJ Mode Collection
- Creator:
- Penabaz, Fernando
- Date:
- 1965
- Posted Date:
- 2024-04-25
- ID Number:
- 2485.01
- File Name:
- PJM_2485_01.jpg
- Style/Period:
- 1960 - Present
- Subject:
- Communism & Cold War
Politics & Government
Pictorial - Measurement:
- 20 x 12.5 (centimeters, height x width)
- Notes:
- This map is typical of anti-communist literature produced in the 1950s and 60s, often by Christian nationalist groups. It shows a red Soviet hammer and sickle with its handle resting on Cuba and its point plunged into the Domincan Republic, resulting in bloodshed.
The map serves as the cover of a 39-page pamphlet intended to demonstrate that "wittingly or unwittingly," U.S. policy makers, in concert with Latin American leftists, "are openly and undisputedly endorsing a course of action which, if continued, can only lead to the conversion of [the Dominican Republic] into another Soviet Union colony in the Caribbean." (p.3) The pamphlet blames not only President Lyndon Johnson and Vice President Hubert Humphrey, but Ambassadors Ellsworth Bunker, John Bartlow Martin, and Averell Harriman, along with many others.
The brochure was published by the evangelical "Christian Crusade," a very successful segregationist, anti-communist organization based in Tulsa, Oklahoma, and led by Rev. Billy James Hargis.
For other similar maps, Search > "Communism."
Cornell University Library is pleased to present this digital collection of Persuasive Maps, the originals of which have been collected and described by the private collector PJ Mode. The descriptive information in the “Collector’s Notes” has been supplied by Mr. Mode and does not necessarily reflect the views of Cornell University. - Source:
- Penabaz, Dr. Fernando. [1965] Red Runs the Caribbean. Tulsa: Christian Crusade.
- Format:
- Image
- Rights:
- For important information about copyright and use, see http://persuasivemaps.library.cornell.edu/copyright.