CRI Lecture | Fighting Fascism in the Factory: The Revolutionary Lives of Women Cigar Workers
Saturday, September 14, 2024 2pm
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1001 Washington Ave, Miami Beach, FL 33139
https://wolfsonian.org/whats-on/events/2024/09/fighting-fascism-in-the-factory-the-revolutionary-lives-of-women-cigar-workers.html #Cuban Research InstituteAt the turn of the 20th century, a wave of leftist, radical, working-class women and men traveled from prerevolutionary Cuba to Florida, turning Ybor City into the global capital of the Cuban cigar industry. In this talk, historian Sarah McNamara tells the story of immigrant and American-born Latinas from this "Cigar City" who organized strikes, marched against fascism, and criticized U.S. foreign policy.
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