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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. The neighborhood, called Ridgecrest, bloomed.This we…
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