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Finding A Home: Latino Residential Influx Into Progress Village, 1990-2010, Christopher Julius Pineda
Finding A Home: Latino Residential Influx Into Progress Village, 1990-2010, Christopher Julius Pineda
USF Tampa Graduate Theses and Dissertations
Progress Village in Tampa Florida was developed in the late 1950s in response to the dislocation of black families during the construction of Interstate-4. Furthermore this community became an opportunity for many black and more specifically, African American families, to live in a community devoid of racist attitudes and tensions rampant in inner city Tampa at the time. For over thirty years this community’s residential population was overwhelmingly (90 percent) black or African American. In the 1990s though this community would begin to experience the first wave of Latino residents and by 2000 this group would comprise over 2 percent …