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Otis R. Anthony African Americans in Florida Oral Histories
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Most of these oral histories were conducted between 1977 and 1978 as part of the Black History of Tampa Project, sponsored by the Tampa Urban League and the Hillsborough County Museum, under the direction of community activist Otis R. Anthony.
In 1994, Anthony donated the collection to the USF Department of Anthropology, to support its Central Avenue Legacies Project. The Department of Anthropology conducted additional interviews, focusing primarily on Central Avenue and the Afro-Cuban community.
This is an open collection with interviews from other sources, to which more content will be added over time.
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Florida Sentinel Bulletin Video Slide Show
For more than 63 years the Florida Sentinel Bulletin has provided a record of daily life in Tampa Bay's African-American community. Because other newspapers in Tampa Bay rarely printed articles about the African-American community, in the early years of the publication of the Florida Sentinel Bulletin, this newspaper is often the only source for written news about this community in this period.
Throughout its history the Florida Sentinel Bulletin has covered the social, cultural, political, and religious life in Tampa Bay's African-American community and has provided particularly interesting articles on the role of women and on the community's transformation during the Civil Rights Movement in the 1950s and 1960s.
The USF Libraries Special & Digital Collections has holdings of the Florida Sentinel Bulletin from 1946 to the present. This collection is used extensively by researchers, scholars, and historians and is available at the University of South Florida Libraries in microfilm and print formats.
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Digital ID: A31-00087
Digital ID:
- (OCoLC)436223107
Call number:
- E185.93.F5
Creator: Anthony, Otis R.
Title: Otis Anthony [electronic resource] / interviewed by Andrew T. Huse.
Published: Tampa, Fla. : University of South Florida Tampa Library, 2009.
Physical description: 1 sound file (265 min.) : digital, MPEG4 file +
Otis R. Anthony African Americans in Florida oral history projectDate/Time of Event:
- Interview conducted July 1, 2009, July 16, 2009, and July 24, 2009.
Summary: Otis Anthony describes his childhood, education, and career. A native Tampan, Anthony's early education was in segregated schools. He came to USF in 1969, and was one of the first African American students to attend the university, where he was the chair of the black student union. An activist and community organizer, Anthony directed the Black History Research Project of Tampa in 1978. In the 1980s, he was the director of Tampa's Department of Solid Waste, and became the executive assistant to Mayor Sandy Freedman in 1987. Anthony became the director of diversity management for Polk County Schools in 2005. He also hosts a weekly show on WMNF 88.5 FM, a community radio station in Tampa.
Other Contributers: Huse, Andrew T.
Other Contributers: University of South Florida Libraries. Florida Studies Center. Oral History Program.
Other Contributers: University of South Florida. Tampa Library.
C0 FHM ICollection: Otis R. Anthony African Americans in Florida OHP
Subjects:
- Anthony, Otis R.
- African American civic leaders Interviews.
- African American political activists Interviews.
- Black History Research Project of Tampa.
- Tampa (Fla.) Politics and government.
- African Americans Florida.
- African Americans Florida History.
- Oral history. local
- Online audio. local
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