USF Living Heritage Institute Collections

The Living Heritage Institute (LHI) at the University of South Florida is an integrative platform for applied storytelling that works to extend sites of knowledge, practice, and collaboration beyond academic/institutional walls.

The African American Burial Ground & Remembering Project (AABG Project), part of the LHI-Heritage Research Lab, is an ongoing USF research study which addresses the erasure of historic black cemeteries in the Tampa Bay area. It consists of faculty, staff, and students from multiple disciplines across USF St. Pete and Tampa campuses. The project focuses on activities to identify, interpret, preserve, record, and memorialize previously unmarked, erased, abandoned, and underfunded African American burial grounds in Florida, with a focus on Tampa’s Zion Cemetery (located beneath Robles Park Village) and St. Petersburg’s Oaklawn, Evergreen, and Moffett cemeteries (located beneath a Tropicana Field parking lot and I-275).

For questions about LHI and the African American Burial Ground & Remembering Project, please contact Dr. Antoinette Jackson and explore the USF Living Heritage Institute and the USF Heritage Research Lab.