125 years ago, a Harvard exhibition drew 1,200 Cuban educators to class In the summer of 1900, the rhythms of campus were transformed as more than 1,200 Cuban educators arrived for a six-week summer school.

This story first appeared on palabra, the digital news site by the National Association of Hispanic Journalists. Award-winning Cuban-American journalist Mirta Ojito still remembers encountering a chapter of forgotten history in a Key West, Florida, bookstore almost 20 years ago.