2019 NEH Summer Institute, The Center for José Martí Studies Affiliate at the University of Tampa: “Ybor City Lives: Wars, Revolutions, Great Depression, Great Society, Urban Renewal, and Americanization” with Gary Mormino
| dc.contributor.author | Mormino, Gary | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2019-09-12T14:02:24Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2019-09-12T14:02:24Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 2019-07-09 | |
| dc.description | Please click on YouTube Video link above to stream the presentation. | en_US |
| dc.description.abstract | For more than four decades, my life has been intimately involved and intertwined with Ybor City. The enclave remains the most interesting place I have ever encountered. Upon arriving in 1977, I began interviewing elderly immigrants who had rolled cigars in the factories, endured the sting of protracted labor strikes and the heartbreak of urban renewal. My illustrated talk will review the most significant challenges in 20th-century Ybor City. The decades between 1900 and 1930 represented the golden age of Ybor City. Hundreds of cigar factories made Tampa synonymous with hand-rolled Puro Habana cigars. Around ten thousand Cuban, Spanish, and Italian immigrants created one of America’s most distinctive ethnic enclaves. Immigrants constructed some of Florida’s most beautiful and functional mutual aid societies. There, immigrants enjoyed cradle-to-grave benefits: social solidarity, cultural entertainment, and the benefits of cooperative medicine. A fiercely militant and left-leaning labor movement thrived. The decade of the 1930s and 1940s shattered the colony’s insularity and optimism. The Great Depression ravaged the cigar industry while the Spanish Civil War augured the future. World War II took away thousands of young, second-generation men and women. It was Ybor City’s finest hour, but also signified a roll call. Veterans and their wives did not wish to return to Ybor City; many moved to the burgeoning suburbs. The history of Ybor City in the decades after 1950 is a story of assimilation, Americanization, urban renewal, urban and cultural revival. | en_US |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11868/800 | |
| dc.identifier.uri | https://youtu.be/r5bqAtiCpfM | |
| dc.language.iso | en_US | en_US |
| dc.publisher | The University of Tampa | en_US |
| dc.subject | Ybor City (Tampa, Fla.) | en_US |
| dc.subject | Cigar industry--Florida--Tampa--History | en_US |
| dc.subject | Cuban Immigrants | en_US |
| dc.subject | Spanish immigrants | en_US |
| dc.subject | Italian immigrants | en_US |
| dc.subject | Tabaqueros | |
| dc.title | 2019 NEH Summer Institute, The Center for José Martí Studies Affiliate at the University of Tampa: “Ybor City Lives: Wars, Revolutions, Great Depression, Great Society, Urban Renewal, and Americanization” with Gary Mormino | en_US |
| dc.title.alternative | José Martí and the Immigrant Communities of Florida in Cuban Independence and the Dawn of the American Century | en_US |
| dc.type | Video | en_US |