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Residents urge $8–9 million for Zion Cemetery memorial; council asks for administration update
Summary
Speakers and the Zion Cemetery Preservation and Maintenance Society urged the council to fund design, land acquisition and memorialization for the historic African‑American burial site; council requested an administrative update and set further study and outreach.
TAMPA — Multiple residents and the Zion Cemetery Preservation and Maintenance Society pressed the City Council to fund a memorial park, genealogy center and land acquisition to memorialize more than 800 interments uncovered beneath a public housing site.
Speakers including Michael Randolph and Reba Eamon described the discovery as a moral obligation and urged the city to help finance a community‑led memorial and a genealogical research center. Randolph said the effort would “restore justice to over 850 forgotten…
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