Tampa-area NAACP launching effort to save Jackson House
The Hillsborough County branch of the NAACP is launching a campaign to save a 113-year-old rooming house where African Americans visiting Tampa stayed during the segregation era. The group's president told the Tampa City Council that the NAACP would try to raise the $2 million to $3 million necessary to secure and restore the structure, which is in danger of collapsing. Read the story in the Tampa Tribune: NAACP wants stab at saving Jackson House
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