José Martí
28 January 1853 – 19 May 1895
José Martí (1853-1895) was a Cuban poet, essayist, journalist, and revolutionary who became the foremost symbol of Cuba's struggle for independence from Spain. A key figure of Latin American modernismo literature, he organized the Cuban independence movement from exile and founded the Cuban Revolutionary Party. He was killed in battle shortly after the start of the Cuban War of Independence in 1895.
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Life events
Born to Spanish immigrant parents in Havana, then a colony of Spain.
Source: en.wikipedia.orgArrested and sentenced to hard labor at age sixteen for his writings supporting Cuban independence during the Ten Years' War.
Source: en.wikipedia.orgHis sentence was commuted to exile, and he was deported to Spain in 1871, where he published an indictment of Spanish rule in Cuba.
Source: en.wikipedia.orgCompleted studies in civil law and in philosophy and letters in Spain in 1874.
Source: en.wikipedia.orgMarried the Cuban Carmen Zayas Bazán in Mexico City; their son José Francisco was born in 1878.
Source: en.wikipedia.orgMoved to New York, which became his base for journalism and for organizing the Cuban independence movement over the next fifteen years.
Source: en.wikipedia.orgHis book of poems dedicated to his son is often cited as a starting point of the Latin American modernist movement.
Source: en.wikipedia.orgHis best-known poetry collection, whose verses later provided the lyrics of the song 'Guantanamera'.
Source: en.wikipedia.orgOrganized the Partido Revolucionario Cubano to unite exile communities behind a new war for Cuban independence.
Source: en.wikipedia.orgAfter landing in Cuba to join the War of Independence, he was shot and killed by Spanish troops at Dos Ríos.
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