Tampa Bay's found cemeteries were never really lost
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 28 ก.ย. 2024
- Five Black cemeteries have been found across Tampa Bay in the last three years. But for the communities around them, they were never really lost.
Eunive Massey lived next to Zion Cemetery in Tampa. She used to pick wild flowers and put them on graves that had none. Robert Young worked as a funeral attendant at St. Matthews Baptist Church Cemetery in Clearwater. Both these resting places now have buildings and roads on top of them.
The discovery of these cemeteries is now forcing conversations between local communities and governments. The Tampa Housing Authority wants to memorialize Zion with a park that celebrates the history of Tampa’s first Black cemetery. And in St. Petersburg, ground penetrating radar is being used to locate potential graves before redevelopment of Tropicana Field gets under way.
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Wonderfully done news report. Thank you for spotlighting. - Jacqueline L.Hayes
A forgotten cemetery was found at a golf course in Tallahassee.
This is proof God will reveal what is covered up
Cemeteries are the biggest waste of land.
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I've been a volunteer for three years on the ZIon Cemetery Project, an undertaking to document the people who were interred there. We have used death certificates, the Tampa city burial ledgers, U.S. federal censuses, Florida state censuses, city directories, newspapers (the Black newspapers that might have published obituaries have all been lost), some existing funeral home records, tax records, the few probate records, and other sources. We seek to trace the people's origins, their families, their descendants, and biographical details. Every person has been given a Find A Grave record, and we have sought to contact living descendants to obtain any photographs and to elicit oral histories of the people, their lives, their environments, their occupations, and more. This work has been done in partnership with the University of South Florida in Tampa, the Black Cemetery Network, and the City of Tampa. Work is underway to organize and conduct similar projects on the cemeteries in Clearwater and St. Petersburg, Florida. I have personally learned so much about the community, the people, and the history of Tampa. This has become a labor of love and respect.
Absolutely shameful!!!
I remember when a corrupt politician from Gulfport tried to take credit away from an 19 year old girl who began cleaning up one cemetery only to discover an unmarked black cemetery right next to Boga Ciega High School.
Wonderful documentary piece, BUT, especially as the proposal for developing the area around the Dome are being considered the very tiny mention of St. Petersburg in the story is of serious concern.
These are the Aboriginal Americans