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At the start of September 1848, the Jackson family was living comfortably in Tampa, then a village with a population of around 200.That changed when the hurricane known as “The Great Gale of ‘48″ made landfall in Tampa Bay on Sept. 25 of that year.“I had
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“I had the pleasantest situation on the Hillsborough River ... But it pleased the Almighty not to allow me to enjoy it.”
Historians now know a significant sit-in, regarded as the beginning of Tampa’s civil rights movement, occurred on Richard Roach’s former […] The post Clues emerge in assassination of Black Florida deputy 150 years ago appeared first on TheGrio.
Richard Roach was the first Hillsborough County deputy to die in the line of duty.
In building a directly democratic future, we must learn from examples of grassroots historical research and rediscover community approaches to archaeology.