FLDOS Zion Cemetery Oral Histories: African American Burial Grounds Oral History Project
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Interviewer
Antoinette Jackson
Publication Date
2025
Date
2025-05-06
Abstract
Ron Sheehy learned about his great-nephew, who was buried in Zion Cemetery, from a Tampa Bay Times reporter. He mentions the cemetery was destroyed by the city for a housing project, which Sheehy finds disrespectful. Sheehy attended schools in Tampa and is pleased that Memorial Park, another neglected Black cemetery, is now maintained by the city.
Keywords
Zion Cemetery (Tampa, Fla.), African American cemeteries, Memorialization, Housing developments, Cemeteries--Desecration, Genealogy
Extent
00:13:56; 10 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_1005
Recommended Citation
Sheehy, Ron, "Ron Sheehy Oral History Interview" (2025). FLDOS Zion Cemetery Oral Histories: African American Burial Grounds Oral History Project. 7.
https://digitalcommons.usf.edu/zion_oral_histories/7
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