Hispanic Heritage Month: The story of the 'Black mother' of Cuban liberator Jose Marti

Over the next couple of days, we’ll be highlighting the impact Latinos have had on the Bay Area for Hispanic Heritage Month. Paulina Pedroso was an Afro-Cuban woman who owned property in the Bay Area and saved the life of Cuban liberator Jose Marti. Here’s her story, told by historian Rodney Kite-Powell with the Tampa Bay History Center. “Paulina Pedroso was an Afro-Cuban woman who lived in Ybor City in the early 1890s," Kite-Powell said. "Ybor City in the 1890s was a very important multi-cultural, but also industrial segment, of Tampa. Very different from Anglo-Tampa just a mile away of what is now downtown."