TAMPA, Fla. — Sarah McNamara was a teenager when she first learned of her great-great grandmother and great aunt’s local activism in the 1930s.
“My grandmother showed me a photo of the 1937 Ybor City women’s march against fascism,” McNamara said. “Around 5,000 Latinas marched, and you could see my family in the photo.”
But it wasn’t until she was pursuing degrees in history, culminating with a doctorate, that McNamara understood the significance of that march and the role that Tampa women played in the fight against fascism abroad and, in their opinion, at home.
