Black Tampa Historians

Who were the Black soldiers involved in the 1898 riot before heading to Cuba for the Spanish American War?

Who was Tampa's first Black female lawyer in the 1970s?

What was the maximum capacity of Black people per school in Hillsborough according to the 1971 desegregation plan?

Who was the first Black Hillsborough County Commissioner?

What was the first Black high school in the state of florida to win a Football Championship?

What can you find at the Clerk of the Circuit Court in Downtown Tampa?

During the years of Reconstruction, Cyrus Charles was Tampa's first Black what in 1869?

When were the Black people of Tampa emancipated from slavery?

What Civil rights leader spoke in Tampa on November 19, 1961?

Anne Lowe, a black designer who lived in Tampa 1915-1927, created the wedding gown for who?

What boarding house was built in the early 1900s and took in many Central Ave. artists?

At 12 years old, where did Blanche Armwood attend school and graduate Summa Cum Laude?

When did Central Avenue in Tampa flourish as a hub for black businesses and culture?

Who was the first Black Assistant Superintendent Hillsborough County?

What was the first Black fraternity chartered in Tampa?

Who was Florida's first black registered nurse in 1916?

What year did Tampa's Black Leaders push for Negro Day at the Florida State Fair?

What golf course was built in 1952 for the black people in Tampa?

Who was the first Black principal of Jefferson High School right after integration in 1971?

What was the name of the group James Hammond founded to help calm the 1967 Tampa Riots?

What community was built in the 1950s specifically for the Black population?

Who was hired as Francis Dade's interpreter, and blamed for tipping off the Seminols causing the 1835 Dade Massacre?

Who was the principal at Booker T. Washington Junior High School in 1950s?

What school in Tampa caught fire in 1940, and reopened in 1943?

What dance started in Tampa and had a song written by Hank Ballard in the 1960s?

What year was the Tampa Branch of NAACP was founded?

Who laid the foundations for the Kennedy Boulevard bridge, Garcia Avenue bridge, and Citizens Bank building?

Who was Hillsborough County's first Black judge in 1973?

Madame Fortune Taylor owned about how many acres in Downtown Tampa?

Who funded and helped provide free health tests in Tampa's black community?

Who was Tampa's first official Poet Laureate?

What Black Doctor performed the first major surgery at the Clara Frye Hospital in 1921?

Who was the Black woman owned by William Ashley that is said to be buried in or near his grave at the Oaklawn Cemetary?

Around what time did the Union capture Ft. Brooke, emancipating the Black people of Tampa?

What Black community was located where Channelside currently sits?

Who was President of the Negro State Fair Association, a businessman, and a postman?

Enslaved Black people working at the Salt Works on the Alafia River waded into the water when they heard what?

Who created the touring Black burleque show during the Jim Crow Era called "Harlem in Havana Review"?

What year was the Tampa Urban League established?

How many 2nd Infantry Regiment U.S. Colored Troops were sent to help emancipate the Black people of Tampa in 1864?

Adam was lynched in the Scrub on December 16th, 1859 for allegedly doing what?

Which organization in Tampa did Ellen H. Green become the first Black woman president of?

What Tampa newspaper was owned by C. Blythe Andrews during Civil Rights Movement?

What key Civil Rights event in Tampa took place in February of 1960?

Who was the musical artist that rented a room located at 813 Short Emory in 1947?

What film featured a scene shot in Tampa on Central Avenue?

Who was the first Black woman elected Hillsborough County Commissioner?

In 1899, where was Thomas McKnight's Negro Hospital built in Tampa?

Who replaced Harry T. Moore as Florida's NAACP Executive Field Secretary after he was murdered?

Which school's name was changed to Ferrell Girls Preparatory Academy in 2005?

What are the two Historically Black high schools in Tampa?

The Black Seminole John Horse lived in Tampa in the 1820s-30s and was known for catching what?

Where can you find Tampa directory books from the early 1900s showing Tampa resident addresses?

Who was the first Black woman on the Hillsborough County School Board?

What group was formed in 1870 to politically advocate and protect the black community from the KKK in Tampa?

What maps from early 1900s show the old roads and buildings of Tampa's Black neighborhoods?

What was the name of the street also known as the "Black Business District" of Tampa?

What did many Black people grow on their land in the late 1800s?

Tampa Slave Auctions were held on the doorsteps of which building?

The Ku Klux Klan is photographed assembling in late the 1930s at which Tampa Park?

How many acres did Bartholomew Leonardi buy from Black landowner Thomas Jackson in 1871?

What neighborhood did Tampa's most prominent athletes grow up in the mid 1900s?

Due to the 1971 intergration plan, what were all Black high schools in Hillsborough County converted into?

Why was Martin Luther King's speech in Tampa postponed on Nov 19th, 1961?

Who was the first Black person from Florida to compete in the in 1947 Summer Olympics?

Dobyville, named after Richard Doby, was located in which Tampa area?

Harold Clark and E.L. Bing were tasked with spearheading this in 1971?

Whose research is shared in the book "Black Tampa: The Roots of a People"?

This strategy stressed peaceful and measured integration. It became the hallmark of the civil rights movement in Tampa.

Why is Tampa's oldest Black neighborhood called "The Scrub"?

Who is the author of "Family Records of African American Pioneers of Tampa and Hillsborough County"?

Who was the 19-year-old boy that was killed by Tampa Police in the Scrub sparking the 1967 Tampa Riots?

Who was the Negro Hospital located on Lamar Street named after in the early 1900s?

What organization in Tampa opened a hospital, nursing home and ran an ambulance service in mid-1900s?

Dorcas Bryant owned land near which landmark in Downtown Tampa?

During segregation, Which field did Black High Schools play their home games?

Perry Harvey Sr. advocated for better wages for which working men?

What was the first Black Senior High School built in Hillsborough County?

Who is credited with starting the Headstart program?

Tampa’s first Black School, Harlem Academy, was initially called “School #2” and started where in 1867?

Who was the first black student at the University of South Florida in 1961?

How much did Beulah Baptist pay for its original plot of land in the scrub in 1874?

Who was Tampa's first Black councilwoman in 1995?

What black owned nursery was founded by the Tampa Urban League and was started in the early 1920s?

What black school offered vocational/trade courses during WWII?

Bob Guilder was President of this organization during the peak of the Civil Rights Movement in Tampa?

Who filed a lawsuit against the University of Tampa for not admitting Black people in 1963?

Who was Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.'s Theology Professor and the pastor of Beulah Baptist for 40 years?

What parade was held instead of Gaperilla in 1991 due to racial tension and politics?

What Little League Baseball Team in Tampa did Dwight Gooden, Gary Sheffield, and Carl Everett play for?

Who served as Tampa's first supervisor for Negro Schools in 1922?

What Club Lounge on Central Ave. did Cab Calloway, B. B. King, Ray Charles perform?

Warren Hope served as the attorney for which Tampa organization during desegregation years in Hillsborough County?

Formally enslaved Black people were able acquire land under the "1862 Homestead Act" if they did this.

Which of the following black churches was not among the first three Black churches in Tampa?

What was the first Black cemetery created in 1901 and was built over in the mid-1900s?

Who was the first Black man to be appointed apart of the three-man voters registrar team in 1867?

What was the name of the first Black-owned Pharmacy owned by the Armwood Family in 1914?

What Life Insurance Agency in Tampa was co-founded by Mary McLeod Bethune in 1922?

Name of first Negro school located on Harrison and Morgan in Tampa?