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José Martí  

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  • José Julián Martí y Pérez, commonly known as José Martí, was born in Havana, Cuba, on January 28, 1853, to Mariano Martí, a sergeant in the Spanish army, and Leonor Pérez Cabrera, both of whom were Spanish citizens living in colonial Cuba. He died on May 19, 1895, during a battle he helped orchestrate, the Second War of Independence, fighting, as ever, for his life's cause—Cuban Independence. [Source: Encyclopedia of Activism and Social Justice; Martí, José (1853–1895)]

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