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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.
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Tampa Bay civil rights leader knows, 50 years later, that he was targeted by FBI
The FBI surveilled Askia Muhammad Aquil â then known as Otha Favors â as part of its Counterintelligence Program of domestic organizations.
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Askia Muhammad Aquil looks back on his life as a community activist. He is shown here outside of his office Campbell Park in St. Petersburg. [ BOYZELL HOSEY | TIMES | Tampa Bay Times ]
ST. PETERSBURG â Fifty years ago, Askia Muhammad Aquil was acquitted.
The St. Petersburg resident â then named Otha Favors â was acquitted of marijuana possession. He was acquitted of operating a business without a license, contributing to the delinquency of a minor and occupying a room for immoral purposes. He was acquitted on two firearms charges and one obscenity charge.
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