Otis R. Anthony African Americans in Florida Oral History Project
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Interviewer
Williams, Naomi R.
Publisher
University of South Florida Libraries
Date
2007-11-01
Publication Date
3-22-2011
Abstract
Oral history interview with James Tokley, Poet Laureate of Tampa, Florida. In this interview, Tokley discusses the history of Tampa's African American community and its influence on the city's development, in particular the Central Avenue business community and the Central Park Village housing project. In the late 1960s, Central Avenue began to decline. After integration, people could go to white-owned businesses and were no longer restricted to those owned by blacks, and urban renewal and the construction of Interstate 275 destroyed many of the buildings. Central Park Village was built in the 1950s to provide safe, affordable housing to low income families, and Tokley argues that stereotypes about the residents combined with political and economic conditions led to its demise. In this interview, Tokley also discusses his firm, Tokley & Associates, which does diversity effectiveness training.
Keywords
African Americans, Florida, Tampa, Social conditions, Social life and customs, Housing, History, Multiculturalism, African American poets, Poets laureate
Description
1 sound file (50 min.) : digital, MPEG4 file + ;
Subject: topical
African Americans--Florida--Tampa; African Americans--Social conditions--Florida--Tampa; African Americans--Social life and customs--Florida--Tampa; African Americans--Housing--Florida--Tampa; African Americans--History--Florida; Multiculturalism--Florida--Tampa; African American poets--Interviews; Poets laureate--Interviews
Language
English
Type
Sound
Genre
Oral histories; Online audio
Format
audio/mp3
Notes
Interview conducted November 1, 2007. Interviewed by Naomi R. Williams.
Holding Location
University of South Florida
Collection
Otis R. Anthony African Americans in Florida oral history project
Identifier
A31-00093
Recommended Citation
Tokley, Eugene James; University of South Florida Libraries -- Florida Studies Center.|Oral History Program; and University of South Florida -- Tampa Library, "James Tokley oral history interview" (2011). Otis R. Anthony African Americans in Florida Oral History Project. 42.
https://digitalcommons.usf.edu/otis_anthony_ohp/42
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