Just because it’s ugly doesn’t mean you should look away. Tampa Bay is a great place to live for many, but there’s often a dark past buried beneath the surface.
The St. Pete Pier’s
, for example, is a reminder that Spa Beach was “whites-only.”
A two-hour trolley tour by the St. Petersburg Museum of History will explore that topic, plus local lunch counter sit-ins and civil disobedience as residents lived through Jim Crow and fought for their civil rights in the Sunshine City.
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