Courtesy of USF St. Petersburg
By Dylan Hart
USF St. Petersburg’s Neighborhood News Bureau, in conjunction with the Tampa Bay Times, the African American Heritage Association, the Weekly Challenger and the Dr. Carter G. Woodson Museum, plans to help document the history of St. Petersburg’s African American community.
The organizations will meet Nov. 9 from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. at the Woodson Museum, 2240 Ninth Ave. S to “collect oral histories, photos and other archival material from long-time residents to tell the story of (what) life was like here from the 1930s to the turn of the 21st century,” according to the African American Heritage Association website.
The material will go toward a project called “Tourist Town,” which plans to retell the history of St. Petersburg from the perspective of its historically marginalized African American community.
The project’s namesake comes from the city’s attempts to segregate the community away from the beaches and tourist attractions.
NNB is a newsroom on campus covering the historic African-American neighborhoods of St. Petersburg, according to its website. Students run the newsroom under the supervision of professor Bernardo Motta and graduate assistant Nicole Slaughter Graham.
Reservations are not necessary. To reserve a specific time slot, email NNB@usf.edu or call 727-612-7998.
