After his release, he sank into poverty and experienced discrimination, working in a harbor on a very low salary. He was arrested again in 1930 but was soon released. In 1933 he joined the integralist movement. In 1938 an integralist uprising was easily crushed by the Brazilian military, with fewer than twenty deaths, and the group was outlawed. With Brazil at war with the fascist Axis powers from 1942 onwards, integralism became a small and powerless movement. Germany's defeat in 1945 reduced integralism to very little importance. João Cândido Felisberto said in 1968 that he was proud to be an integralist. After living in ostracism in the Brazilian city of São João de Meriti and being persecuted by the Brazilian Navy, he died of cancer in 1969 in Rio de Janeiro, at the age of 89. The Lash Uprising, which was sparked by the Brazilian Navy's use of torture, ended with Felisberto and many of his followers imprisoned and tortured. The revolt was cited later by labor organizers as an "heroic example of worker struggle". A statue of João Cândido Felisberto was erected in Rio de Janeiro. His life was portrayed in a movie, "Memórias da Chibata" ("Chibata Memories"), in 2006, retelling his fight against the Lash with actors, and a documentary called "Cem Anos Sem Chibata" ("Cem Anos Sem Chibata"), a coproduction with EBC, in 2010. Both productions were written and directed by Marcos Manhães Marins.