Table of Contents

Acknowledgments   ix
Introduction   1
Part 1: The Making of a Multiracial City, 1880-1901
1. Creating the Cigar City   21
2. An Activist Mosaic   38
3. Solidarity and Segregation   67
4. Race Conflicts and Class Currents   98

Part 2: Kaleidoscopic Connections, 1902-29
5. African American Women Confront Jim Crow   142
6. Anglo Women in the Era of Institution Building   170
7. Latin Women from Exiles to Immigrants   200
8. New Women   222
9. Recasting Activist Identities   248

Epilogue   271
Notes   277
Index   335
Illustrations follow page 136

About the Author

Nancy A. Hewitt is an emerita professor of history and women's studies at Rutgers University. She is the author of Women's Activism and Social Change: Rochester, New York, 1822-1872 and coeditor of Visible Women: New Essays on American Activism.

Reviews

Julia Cherry Spruill Prize, Southern Association for Women Historians, 2002.

"A splendid piece of work: rich in detail, soundly reasoned, and provocative in its implications for social historians' debates about identity. Hewitt's lucid, engaging prose makes the book a particularly good one for use in undergraduate classrooms, but specialists will also find it a most valuable read."--Journal of American History

"Hewitt's book revises previous notions about the biracialism of Jim Crow. . . . Outstanding scholarship."--Choice

"Enriches our understanding of women and gender in urban history through [the] astute analys[is] of women as key public actors and cultural symbols in the emerging city of Tampa."--Urban History