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Charles "Fred" Hearns (born November 28, 1948) is a museum curator, former newspaper reporter, city official, and researcher in Tampa, Florida. He is the first curator of Tampa's African American History Museum.
curator of Black History at the Tampa Bay History Museum?1
He was born the New York City borough The Bronx to Grace Tillman Clark and Samuel Hearns. He was a student at College Hill Elementary School, Booker T. Washington Junior High School and George S. Middleton High School in Tampa. Hearns received a B.A. journalism degree from the University of South Florida in Tampa in 1970 and an M.A. degree from Springfield College Tampa Bay in 2011. He received his second M.A. degree in African American studies from the University of South Florida in 2014.2
He wrote a memoir titled Getting It Done: Rebuilding Black America Brick By Brick. In 2018 he was interviewed by HistoryMarkers.2
He has been involved in various civic organizations including NAACP, the Tampa Urban League and Omega Psi Phi Fraternity.
He was an executive assistan to Tampa Mayor Alton White. He led an African American history tour business in Tampa.3
He has belonged to the Allen Temple African Methodist Episcopal Church and has lived in St. Petersburg, Florida. He has four adult children and several grandchildren.3