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Black communities around Tampa Bay were erased. Should cities pay to save the history?
There is a push on both sides of the bay for local governments to take a more proactive role in raising money for Black history projects.
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Tampa s Black neighborhood known as the Scrub as it looked in the 1930s. The downtown neighborhood was later razed. [ Courtesy of Hillsborough County Public Library ]
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TAMPA â Historic Black cemeteries in Tampa were erased more than half a century ago with the help of the city government.
Tampa levied neighborhood improvement fees on Zion and College Hill cemeteries, took the lands when the owners could not pay, canceled those same fees when white developers owned the cemeteries, and then looked the other way when those burial grounds were erased.
Proposed memorial for Tampaâs erased Zion Cemetery has an $8 million price tag
The estimate depends on three property owners donating their portions of Zion Cemetery to the cause.
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A conceptual design of what the Zion Cemetery memorial park could look like. [ Courtesy of the Tampa Housing Authority ]
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TAMPA â In the 1920s, the city of Tampa wrongly taxed Zion Cemetery and, when the Black owners did not pay, reverted ownership of the Black burial ground to the white family who homesteaded the land decades earlier.
The homesteaders sold the cemetery and tax debt to a white developer.
The city then waived the taxes, approved permits to build on the cemetery land and looked the other way when the headstones were removed but the bodies were not.
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