FLDOS Zion Cemetery Oral Histories: African American Burial Grounds Oral History Project
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Alternative Title
Attorney Jeraldine Williams Oral History Interview
Interviewer
Antoinette Jackson
Publication Date
Summer 2025
Date
2025-05-07
Abstract
Attorney Jeraldine Williams discusses her connection to Zion Cemetery through her great-great-grandmother, Anna Rebecca Wyche. Through her research, Williams connects her family tree to notable individuals, including two of the first fourteen Black people to integrate the University of Florida. She also recalls the memorial event she planned on February 17th, 2022 for Anna, and advocates for a memorial park or research center in Tampa to preserve African American history.
Keywords
Zion Cemetery (Tampa Fla.), Florida. Department of State, Genealogy, Anna Rebecca Wyche, Memorial parks (Cemeteries), Housing development, Urban redevelopment, Families--History, Memorialization, Citizen participation
Extent
00:25:04; 16 page transcript
Subject: geographic
Hillsborough County (Fla.); Tampa (Fla.)
Language
English
Digital Date
2025
Media Type
Oral history
Format
Digital only
Identifier
zion_oral_histories_1003
Recommended Citation
Williams, Jeradline, "Jeraldine Williams Oral History Interview" (2025). FLDOS Zion Cemetery Oral Histories: African American Burial Grounds Oral History Project. 4.
https://digitalcommons.usf.edu/zion_oral_histories/4
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