“Blanche Armwood was born around 1890 in Hillsborough County. Her family owned a lot of property out in the Seffner area and today we have Armwood High School in Seffner named for Blanche ...

Fred Hearns, a historian with the Tampa History Center, highlights Blanche Armwood. “Blanche Armwood was born in Tampa in the area that we knew as the Scrub near Central Avenue,” said Hearns.

Of course, it's difficult for me to criticize when a group of older and supposedly wiser friends recently exclaimed, "Armwood is named after a black woman?" Yes, it is. And not only was Blanche ...

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Armwood High School in Seffner was named after Blanche Armwood, a Tampa native and the first African-American woman from Florida to graduate from an accredited law school, Howard University. She ...

Armwood High School Blanche Armwood (1890-1939) was an educator and advocate who fit many accomplishments into her 49 years. According to thetampariverwalk.com, Armwood graduated from college at ...

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