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Once upon a time Scott Street was in the middle of Tampa’s Central Avenue District, which was the core of the city’s African American community. Today the brick street rumbles by mostly vacant, fenced lots, where the Central Park Village public housing stood from 1954 until 2007.

Paradise Missionary Baptist Church, as it appears today:

Further Reading:

Tampa Tribune, July 31, 2007

St. Petersburg Times, December 12, 2008

Anthropology News, Dec. 2008

A Guide to Historic Tampa, by Steve Ratjar (The History Press, 2007)

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