Michelle Sawyer’s Ybor City mural commemorating Tampa’s 1937 antifascist women’s march. Credit: Photo via CityofTampa/Twitter

Long before pussy hats and Teslas, there were still women marching against fascism.

On Tuesday, a group of activists are following the footsteps of the Antifascist Women’s March that took place 88 years ago in Ybor City.

More than 5,000 women—mostly working class Latinas—united on May 6, 1937 to protest fascism spreading in Spain and around the world. They marched from Ybor City to downtown Tampa to address Mayor R.E.L. Chancey at City Hall and present a petition.

Three of those women—Dolores Ibárruri, Luisa Moreno and Margot Falcón Blanco —are immortalized in a mural on 7th Avenue.

The Progressive Power Collective, a group formed after the 2024 election, will lead a memorial walk from the Ybor City Arch Monument through Ybor City to Centennial Park where a separate May Day protest is already scheduled.

There, a message will be read from Tampa historian Sarah McNamara—whose book “Ybor City: Crucible of the Latina South” tells many of those women’s stories—while participants join a commemorative chalk art project.

Memorial Walk for the 1937 Antifascist Women’s March starts at 5:30 p.m Tuesday at 7th Avenue and 26th Street in Ybor City. Check @progressivepowercollective on Instagram for updates.