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Remembering Dobyville: Traces of early success in a Black Tampa neighborhood

"We were a family," recalls 70-year-old former resident Michelle B. Patty. "It didn’t have to be by blood that we cared about one another." ....

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For Juneteenth, travel Tampa's 46-mile Soulwalk detailing Black history

TAMPA — Central Avenue was once the hippest place in Tampa. It’s where Ray Charles made his first recording and where Hank Ballard discovered “The Twist,” the dance that inspired his song popularized by Chubby Checker. Duke Ellington and Ella Fitzgerald also regularly performed there. But nothing remains of Central Avenue today. “So much of the hardscape of the African American community has . ....

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Tampa bought a historic Black cemetery and inherited a mystery

The city has to sort through 104 years of records to figure out who is buried in Memorial Park Cemetery. ....

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The man who started one of Tampa's first African American neighborhoods

Fred Hearns, a historian with the Tampa History Center, highlights a former African American community in Tampa named after the Black businessman who started it. ....

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Some residents push to add 'Dobyville' to Hyde Park's historic district

Some residents in the Hyde Park area of Tampa want to expand local historic district designation and protection to include where a formerly thriving Black neighborhood once existed. ....

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