RPLS Interview

How do we make sure Tampa’s Black history is not only preserved, but taught? That question is at the center of an episode of the Resting Places, Learning Spaces podcast featuring JR Davis, founder of What It Was Walking Tour.

Screen grab from Resting Places, Learning Spaces Podcast episode “Teaching Tampa's Black History”

During the podcast, JR shares the work of What It Was Walking Tour and how walking through Tampa can help people discover the Black history beneath the city they see today.

Watch the full Resting Places, Learning Spaces episode to hear JR Davis, Ashley Morrow, and Michelle Anderson discuss Tampa’s Black history, the people working to preserve it, and the resources available for anyone who wants to learn more.

Then take the next step.

Come walk through Downtown Tampa with us and experience some of that history in the places where it happened.