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to report on the Cuban revolution. He was able to return to the U.S. in
October 1961, showing his birth certificate and vaccination record at Miami Airport. However, in April 1962, he was summoned again to Miami, where he was tried and convicted for "returning to the United States without a valid
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In the early 1960s he was an outspoken critic of the civil rights movement for not going far enough to achieve civil rights in housing and all areas of
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in a 1969 column for "gratuitous and indiscriminate" 'Uncle Tom' attacks on virtually all the black bourgeoise" and their exposure to law enforcement due to "sloppy, inefficient, undisciplined organizational follow-through".
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passport." During this time, he was placed under surveillance by the FBI. Worthy was again represented by
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that attempted to tear down Worthy's apartment building and turn it into a parking lot. Worthy later wrote about those experiences in a critically acclaimed book,
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on and off from 1953 to 1980. He wrote a column and covered revolutions in Iran, Cuba, and China. Although a supporter of
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together with other prominent civil rights leaders, in which they challenged state segregation laws on public transport. The action inspired the later
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While Worthy continued to work in the field of journalism; in the 1970s, he was appointed as head of the
African American journalism program at
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travel regulations. At the time he entered China, Worthy was the first
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camp. In 1954, he voiced early opposition to American involvement in
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