In this installment of StoryCorps Tampa Bay, we meet Rigoberto Garcia. He was born in Tampa’s Ybor City in 1930. He recalls what it was like growing up with immigrant parents who worked in the cigar factories, and the importance of the Martí-Maceo mutual aid society, which was started by Afro-Cuban cigar workers in the early 1900s.
He joins USF anthropology professor and author of “More than Black: Afro-Cubans in Tampa,” Susan Greenbaum for StoryCorps Tampa Bay.
This week's StoryCorps Tampa Bay was produced by Lottie Watts.
StoryCorps Tampa Bay airs every Monday on WUSF 89.7 at 8:44 a.m. during Morning Edition and at 5:44 p.m. during All Things Considered.
