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A new state law will help protect Florida's lost and abandoned cemeteries, four years after Tampa became the epicenter of rediscovered African American historic cemeteries.
The Rose Hill Cemetery curriculum is being taught in Hillsborough and Pinellas County Schools to teach students about the pioneering African Americans buried there, and to preserve the cemetery's rich history.
Students in the greater Tampa Bay region are learning more about the history of their communities through an educational project involving African American cemeteries.