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- In Tallahassee sit-ins became an important way to protest. The first widely publicized Civil Rights sit-in occurred on Feb. 1, 1960, when four African-American students, later deemed the “Greensboro Four,” from North Carolina Agricultural and Technical College sat down at their local Woolworth lunch counter for a meal.
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Feb 13, 2021 · In Tallahassee sit-ins became an important way to protest. The first widely publicized Civil Rights sit-in occurred on Feb. 1, 1960, when four African-American students, later deemed the “Greensboro Four,” from North Carolina Agricultural and Technical College sat down at their local Woolworth lunch counter for a meal.
On February 13, 1960, Florida A&M students and other members of the Congress of Racial Equality (CORE) held the first of what would turn into a year-long campaign of sit-ins to protest discrimination at department store lunch counters throughout downtown Tallahassee.
White students from Florida State University (FSU) joined both sit-ins. Some 240 students of both races were arrested. Later in the day of the 12th, some 1,000 Florida A&M students in groups of 75 headed downtown with posters.
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
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In 1954, the U.S. Supreme Court unanimously decided that school segregation was unconstitutional. Although the court insisted schools integrage “with all deliberate speed,” the actual process of school desegregation continued into the early 1970s. At the same time, political protests and civic engagement led to gradual changes to discriminatory law...
African-American men and women in Tallahassee boycotted the bus system for nearly seven months after two Florida A&M University (FAMU) students were arrested for sitting beside a white woman on a segregated city bus. During the boycott, protestors carpooled to get to and from work and for other necessary transportation. Twenty-one members of the In...
Tallahassee witnessed several sit-ins in the early 1960s at prominent businesses that maintained “whites only” lunch counters. The first sit-in in Florida’s capital city took place on February 13, 1960. On February 20, students from Florida A&M University and others from around the country held a sit-in at the Woolworth lunch counter in downtown Ta...
In June 1961, Interfaith Freedom Riders challenged segregated interstate buses by traveling from Washington, D.C. to Tallahassee, Florida. After successfully completing the Freedom Ride they planned to fly home but first decided to test whether or not the group would be served in the segregated airport restaurant. After being denied service, 10 Fre...
The sleepy town of St. Augustine became a major battleground in the civil rights movement during the summer of 1964. Integrationists staged several nonviolent “wade-ins” at segregated hotel pools and beaches in the St. Augustine area. National civil rights leaders, including Martin Luther King Jr., came to the Ancient City to support the integratio...
Feb 10, 2020 · 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.
It consists of six stories written by young people involved with sit-ins and other non-violent demonstrations across the United States. Patricia Stephens Due, a Tallahassee civil rights activist who was jailed for 49 days with seven other students following a sit-in at a Woolworth's lunch counter, tells her story from jail.
