Historians now know a significant sit-in, regarded as the beginning of Tampa’s civil rights movement, occurred on Richard Roach’s former property, where he was shot.
One of Florida’s oldest property records has provided information on the 150-year-old murder of one of the state’s first Black deputies.
Someone assassinated Richard W. Roach, the first Hillsborough County deputy to die in the line of duty, outside his house on Aug. 15, 1874, according to today!
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