A play about Tampa’s 1960 sit-ins means more now than ever | Column
“When the Righteous Triumph” debuted at Stageworks Theatre in 2023. Former U.S. Rep. Jim Davis was in the audience. Davis, ...
Woolworth Reunion: Former employees reconnect 60 years after historic sit-Ins
Former Woolworth employees reunite after 60 years, reflecting on friendship, the 1960 sit-ins, and the lunch counter’s ...
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Play honors legacy of 1960 sit-in that spurred Tampa's integration
Middleton and Howard W. Blake. On Feb. 29, 1960, the students went into Woolworth and, after being refused counter service, ...
Men reunite 60 years after working at Woolworth together in the early 1960s
Two men who worked at F.W. Woolworth together during the Civil Rights Movement met again Friday for the first time since the ...
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Civil rights pioneer: ‘Sit-ins’ stood for what I believed in
Clarence Henderson told Brevard Academy students last week America is “the greatest country in the world,” but “you have to ...
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65 years ago, sit-ins were born. Has their time come again?
“Over a 10- to 15-year period, I would say from sit-ins to Black Power, we changed the dynamic of America. “Today is a direct result of what people tried to do in 1960, and what we did in 1960 ...
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Orange County hosts documentary screening on overlooked figure in Greensboro Sit-Ins
On Friday, the Orange County Depa rtment on Aging hosted a documentary screening at the Seymour Center in honor of Black History Month. The documentary, “The Man Behind the Counter, ” dives into an ...
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Ceremony honors Tampa’s historic Woolworth lunch counter sit-in participants 65 years later
The BriefParticipants in the historic 1960 Woolworth lunch counter sit-ins in Tampa were honored at a ceremony on Thursday.The nonviolent demonstrations, both in Tampa and elsewhere across the country ...
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Tampa honors civil rights advocates on the 65th anniversary of a historic downtown sit-in
Sixty-five years ago, a group of high school students staged a peaceful sit-in at a segregated lunch counter in downtown ...
Tampa Bay Times21d
Remembering the Tampa lunch counter sit-ins | Column
Their peaceful sit-ins at the F.W. Woolworth lunch counter not only desegregated many local businesses but also demonstrated the power of interracial cooperation and non-violent protest. In 1960 ...
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Tampa's Path to Equality Part 7: Live on Stage
Tampa celebrates a breakthrough in civil rights when the city’s first wave of sit-ins took off on9, 1960. High school students defied segregation at a Woolworth’s lunch counter and that inspired ...