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.
Tampa Citizens Review Board holds meeting amid political fight
Evan Axelbank reports
TAMPA, Fla. - Sitting at the same dais where city councilors will determine the future of Tampa Police Department s Citizens Review Board, one member needed clarity. It leaves a bit of confusion for people in the community, said member Carolyn Collins. Are we still here? What are we going to do? How are we going to do it?
Councilors are nearing a final vote to appoint seven members and relegate the mayor to three. It s an emotional fight, given the board s duties of reviewing uses of force by TPD, and it took on new meaning after the death of George Floyd.
The city of Tampa must act to unearth the fate of another missing Black cemetery | Editorial
City needs to account for the graves at College Hill Cemetery.
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Robert Irvin and Yvette Lewis with the Hillsborough County NAACP walk across a grassy field believed to once hold burial sections for Cubans and Blacks. Lewis would like the Italian Club, which owns the cemetery, to pay for ground penetrating radar to search for the lost College Hill Cemetery in Tampa. [ MARTHA ASENCIO-RHINE | Times ]
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Where are they? Thatâs the simple question that Tampa needs to answer about the 1,200 missing graves at College Hill Cemetery. As a
City council members last Thursday passed an ordinance that would change the way Tampa’s Citizen Review Board appoints its members, but advocates are tired of how slowly police reform is happening.
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