Tampa Bay Times

How a Black couple from the 1930s had a hand in Habitat for Humanity’s 900th home

By Lauren Peace,

2024-06-19

https://img.particlenews.com/image.php?url=3Q9gV8_0twB8RDv00 — Marnesha Dodson plays hide-and-seek with her son, Kyng Burney, in his soon-to-be bedroom on Gooden Crossing. The family, along with mother Miriam Dodson-Evans, will move into their new home — through Habitat for Humanity — later this month. [ DOUGLAS R. CLIFFORD | Times ]

It started with $800 and a dream.

The year was 1936, Florida was under the rule of Jim Crow and Black people were barred from most schools, restaurants, theaters and pools.

But Chester and Corrine Gooden — sweethearts from Ocala — had come into some money and were wanting land of their own.

They bought 10 acres of citrus grove on the outskirts of Largo, then a new city in Pinellas County, and built a home, a business and, eventually, a community.

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