Ending at 13th Street

With 300 members, La Union Marti-Maceo could provide social and educational services available in segregated Tampa . For 60 cent in weekly dues, a member could get $1.50 in daily medical benefits.

Ninety percent of the Afro-Cubans worked as cigar-workers, while another 15 percent of the female Afro-Cuban population worked in cigar factories. Most as tobacco leaf strippers. Black cigar-workers had little choice but to remain in the union so the club was their refuge from multiple discrimination.