Tampa Technique: Rise, Demise, and Remembrance of Central Avenue

Tampa Technique: Rise, Demise, and Remembrance of Central Avenue analyzes the strategic and calculated Civil Rights Movement in Tampa, Florida through the lens of Central Avenue. Segregation created the thriving black business district until its demise beginning in the 1960s with urban renewal, interstate construction, and a 1967 riot sparked by the death of a 19-year-old black man killed by a white police officer. These social forces led to the physical and symbolic destruction of Central Avenue. Tampa Technique is guided by interviews with residents, historians, and anthropologists to explore the state's first bi-racial committee, lunch counter sit-ins, integration of public facilities and schools, urban renewal/removal, interstate construction, and the '67 death of Chambers. The documentary begins and ends in Perry Harvey, Sr. Park to situate how Central Avenue is publicly memorialized.

[@glennbrown7949]

Well done. Nice work Travis.

[@matrotz]

Was at the showing at the library in Ybor and am looking at this again. Every USF student should see this. Really.

[@martinbass106]

This was beautiful. “Selling Tampa” is the reason I searched for this video

[@sheilainman9232]

Amazing, know your history and respect those before you.

[@0T5Fxk12]

Middleton ain a good school no more🙅🏾‍♂️

[@ghostnotes7750]

Crazy how just one generation ago, people worked hard and strived to become more. Today’s generation is taught from birth that they are a victim and a boogeyman is keeping you from achieving your goals.

[@annettewilcox5413]

Guest you didn’t hear the part about “urban renewal” and highways built through the town to destroy it. This was done all over the US.

[@stevenherzfeld3350]

There's nothing more annoying and grating than claiming moral superiority over a bunch of people you don't even know. Maybe get out and meet some of "today's generation" instead of whining about it online?

[@lordiermedia4001]

@@annettewilcox5413they don’t want to hear that. They only hear what they want to hear.