focal point for citywide infection
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55 years ago…
November 5, 1951 – The Tampa Urban League announces a resolution urging the Tampa Housing Authority to raze the “Scrub,” one of the city’s worst housing areas and long-time African-American section of Tampa, and to utilize the land for building low-income public housing apartments for black families. Describing the “Scrub” as a “focal point for citywide infection,” the League said the city should go ahead with condemnation proceedings on the grounds of sanitation. Central Park Village, itself currently the subject of redevelopment, was built to replace the “Scrub.”
Courtesy of the Tampa Bay History Center.
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