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Feb 13, 2021 · In Tallahassee, students from local high schools and from Florida A&M University supported the call for a region-wide sympathy sit-in. On Feb. 13, 1960, these students took to the Woolworth on Monroe Street and sat at its lunch counter. The sit-in lasted nearly two and a half hours and ended peacefully.
Feb 17, 2020 · On February 13, 1960, a group of students representing the Tallahassee chapter of Congress of Racial Equality (CORE) sat at a local Woolworth’s lunch counter in protest of persistent segregation, beginning a wave of student activism throughout the city that would send shockwaves throughout the count
Cascades Historical Plaza. 1. Lunch Counter Sit-Ins Marker. Inscription. Local store owners refused to allow African Americans to sit and eat at their lunch counters. In February 1960, Tallahassee activists began holding peaceful “sit ins" at Woolworth’s and McCrory's. They risked their safety to expose the immorality of racial discrimination.
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- Robert and Trudie Perkins
- Wilhelmina Jakes and Carrie Patterson
- Patricia Stephens Due and Priscilla Stephens Kruize
- George Calvin Bess, Jr.
- Lessie Graham Sanford
- Rev. Daniel Speed
- Reverend C.K. Steele
- Father David Brooks
- Anita Davis
- Charles Evans
Civil rights “power couple” and graduates of FAMU, Robert and Trudie Perkins advocated for racial equality in the Tallahassee community and beyond. “They’re probably the most little known, under-recognized civil rights leaders in our city’s history,” Hollinger said. “But the most significant.” More:'This is about history': FAMU honors two of its ow...
In 1956, Jakes and Patterson, students at FAMU, were arrested for refusing to forfeit their seats near a white passenger on the public bus. The two women were publicly harassed, and they were threatened with a burning cross placed in their front yard. More:'History is knowledge' as Tallahassee bus boycott marks 64 years This act of racial injustice...
As FAMU students in 1960, sisters Stephens Due and Stephens Kruize founded the Tallahassee chapter of the Congress of Racial Equality. The duo led a series of sit-in protests at segregated lunch counters around the city; they were eventually arrested alongside a group of other students. Refusing to pay the fine, the sisters and students held a “jai...
A student at FAMU, Bess worked as a voting rights activist with the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee. “He traveled throughout the south, registering voters and bringing attention to the racial discrimination and segregation that was going on during that time,” Hollinger said. In 1967, Bess, a Tallahassee native, “died under suspicious circ...
Sanford was a FAMU alumna and a career school teacher in Leon County who also played an influential role in the local civil rights movement. “She was what one would call a quiet-spirited soldier,” Barnes said. “Lessie did not talk a lot, but made sure that the marchers were accommodated hospitality-wise.” According to Barnes, Sanford worked as a fr...
During the Tallahassee Bus Boycott in 1956, Speed, alongside Rev. C.K. Steele, operated a carpool service to provide transportation for African-Americans. Both men were arrested for operating the service without a license. Despite pushback from police and city officials, the bus boycott successfully created a financial strain on the city and led to...
According to Hollinger, Steele was involved in a lawsuit against the Leon County school district for the integration of public schools. He protested against the segregation of lunch counters, department stores and the Tallahassee airport. Steele also led the Tallahassee Bus Boycott and marched in the Selma to Montgomery marches of 1965 to demand vo...
Brooks came to Tallahassee in 1947, when he began serving as vicar of St. Michael and All Angels Episcopal Church, a site of many Youth NAACP and civil rights meetings, and Episcopal Chaplain at FAMU. His influence extended throughout the Tallahassee community, and he was actively involved in the city’s civil rights movement as a member of the Inte...
A Tallahassee resident since leaving New York in 1979, Davis became the first Black woman to be elected to the Leon County Commission in 1990. She served on the Commission for six years, chairing it for two of them, after which she left her position to run for Congress. Davis was president of the Tallahassee NAACP for a total of 12 years. Her work ...
During his lifetime, Evans served as president of the Tallahassee branch of the NAACP and worked as a Professor of Marketing in the School of Business & Industry at FAMU for over 30 years. Evans was one of the first African-Americans to move into the Myers Park neighborhood. His activism began in high school when as a senior he attended the first M...
Feb 10, 2020 · Published February 10, 2020 at 4:23 PM EST. Sixty years ago, a group of Tallahassee college students decided they’d had enough. It was February 13th, 1960, and 11 students, led by Florida A&M University student Patricia Stephens, decided to go downtown for lunch—to the segregated lunch counter of the Woolworth’s department store.
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Summary. One of the most significant protest campaigns of the civil rights era, the lunch counter sit-in movement began on February 1, 1960 when four young African American men sat down at the whites-only lunch counter of the Woolworth store in Greensboro, North Carolina. Refused service, the four college students sat quietly until the store ...
