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Nicolas guillén pronunciationNicolás Guillén: 1902-1989: Writer, Journalist, Social Activist
Nicolás Guillén was born on July 10, 1902, in the eastern Cuban town of Camaguey, in the same year that the Republic of Cuba was created.
Guillén was the sixth child born to mother, Argelia Batista y Arrieta, and father, Nicolás Guillén y Urra. Guillén, a mulatto, was raised in a middle-class home by parents who were of mixed African and Spanish heritage.
However, Guillén's childhood was marred by the death of his father, a journalist and Liberal senator, who was assassinated by government forces during the Civil War of 1917.
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As he and his siblings attended schools, Guillén faced racism in Cuba that was strikingly similar to that faced by black children in the American south during the first half of the twentieth century. Guillén found expression for his feelings and observations about racism in writing.
While he was attending high school in Camaguey, Guil