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Join us for a discussion with friends and neighbors who lived in 1960s Tampa during segregation. We'll also watch a clip from the documentary film "The Tampa Technique." Black people in Tampa and the surrounding areas began organizing residential communities shortly after the Civil War ended on May 6, 1864. For many years, the largest …
Tour “the Harlem of the South,” Tampa’s Central Avenue district. Learn about life in Tampa’s African-American community from the 1890s to the 1960s with stops including the Robert W. Saunders, Sr. Public Library, Jackson House, and Perry Harvey, Sr. Park. Advance tickets are required. Tours start on Saturdays at 10 a.m. from various downtown locations and not at the …
Starting with its first suburb, Tampa Heights, Tampa grew north by annexing neighborhoods like Seminole Heights, College Hill, and others.
Well into the Great Depression, newly elected Franklin Delano Roosevelt needed solutions to the nation's banking, unemployment, and environmental problems. He decided to go big. Join us to discuss the dramatic changes implemented to save the country, their successes, failures, and long-term impacts. Shelley Blood, Fred Hearns, Ross Lamoreaux, Janet Lorenzo, and Carl Zielonka, DDS, …
Tour Tampa's only National Historic Landmark District and learn about early Ybor City people, social life, and work culture.
The Black Cemetery Network (BCN) connects people and projects from across the country to protect, preserve, and promote the histories of African American burial grounds and sacred spaces. Join us for a morning of remembrance, research, art, and fellowship at Memorial Park Cemetery. Presentation, Panel Discussion, music, visual art, spoken word, site walk LEARN MORE …
The history center is open daily from 10 a.m. – 5 p.m.
**Galleries are closed on Thanksgiving and Christmas and open until 3 p.m. on Christmas and New Year’s Eve.
The History Center provides a dramatic and historic backdrop for your wedding, wedding reception or rehearsal dinner. Give your wedding a unique Tampa flair your guests will remember for a lifetime.
Are you looking for a one-of-a-kind Tampa experience for your next corporate event or convention party? Are you a meeting planner looking for a unique setting to host a board retreat or employee function? Located within walking distance of downtown hotels, the History Center is perfect for your next corporate event.
