Total Time for all Week 1 Resources: Approximately 3 hours.

• WATCH: Segregated By Design: Examines the forgotten history of how our federal, state and local governments unconstitutionally segregated every major metropolitan area in America through law and policy. Color of Law Author Richard Rothstein moderates. [Time: 17 minutes]

• WATCH: A ULI Building Healthy Places Initiative Conversation w/ Richard Rothstein, Author of The Color of Law moderated by Leroy Moore, COO + SVP, Tampa Housing Authority. Mr. Rothstein outlines the forgotten history of policies and techniques that contributed to the U.S. housing crisis and systemic racism. [Time: 59 minutes (start at 22 minute mark)]

• WATCH: Central Avenue Remember. This award-winning PBS® film takes an intriguing look at the historic Central Avenue neighborhood in Tampa, Florida, which is now becoming ENCORE!®. [Time: 28 minutes]

• WATCH: A tale of two Tampa Bays: Examining the rage behind the riots. Local civil rights leaders say decades, centuries of racism, injustice and oppression contribute to the outrage reflected in protests and riots. [Time: 5 minutes]

• READ: A complete timeline of Tampa’s erased Zion Cemetery : Nearly 800 were buried in Zion between 1901 and the mid-1920s. Then a white developer purchased the land and in 1929 the city issued him permits to build on and sell the cemetery land [Time: 15 minutes]
• READ: St. Pete’s iconic green benches: Their legacy is more painful than you think : The green benches that dotted the city for decades were symbols of hospitality — and segregation. A public discussion attempts to heal old wounds.[Time: 15 minutes]
• READ: Revisiting the Confederacy at Ellenton’s Gamble Mansion: “Maybe it’s time for the State of Florida to rethink how it is presenting history at the Gamble Plantation.” [Time: 5 minutes]
• Beaches, Benches, and Boycotts: The Civil Rights Movement in Tampa Bay exhibit – Online Exhibition of the Florida Holocaust Museum:  Under “Jim Crow” every aspect of African American life in Tampa, St. Petersburg, Sarasota and their surrounding cities was segregated. [Time: 60 minutes]
  • Tampa
  • St. Petersburg
  • Sarasota

• Study the Redlining Maps from the City of Tampa and City of St. Petersburg. Plan a self guided tour of a red-lined neighborhood on the map
  • Can you still observe the impact of the redlining maps?
  • What do you notice?
  • How would you describe the resources in a red lined neighborhood?
  • How accessible is the neighborhood to jobs, connectivity, schools, and/or greenspace?
  • Is there a sense of arrival? Is it welcoming?
  • How does this impact our larger community?

“Developing Differently”
Candid Conversations: Robles Park History and Future Redevelopment
Recorded On: Thursday, February 18th, 8:30 – 9:45 am