Woolworth Sit-In Tampa's Former F.W. Woolworth Store - Florida Historical Markers on Waymarking.com

Side 1
Woolworth's variety store was the scene of a pivotal event that started on February 29, 1960. Clarence Fort, President of the N.A.A.C.P. Youth Council and Reverend A. Leon Lowry, N.A.A.C.P. State president, led about 40 students (from George S. Middleton and Howard W. Blake High Schools) in a peaceful sit-in at F.W. Woolworth's lunch counter at 801 North Franklin Street. At the time, Tampa Mayor Julian B. Lane assigned police to escort the young protestors and after about a week Lane agreed to appoint a Bi-Racial Committee to look into the demonstrators complaints. By September, Tampa's lunch counters were integrated without the violence seen in many other parts of the country.
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Side 2
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Some of the participants on February 29, 1960 included:

George S. Middleton High School
George Edgecomb, President of Student Council
Alberta Gaskins
Arnold Dubose
Arthenia Joyner
Barbara Wright
Carl Warren
Doris Cross
Eloise Gordon
Inez Anderson
Jacqueline McKinney Preston
James "Jim" Hargrett, Jr.
Joy Lawe Armstrong
Nelson Griffith
Pearl Higdon Urshery
Tereceia Vann
Theodore Lawe

Howard W. Blake High School
Shafter Scott, President of Student Council
Bernard Clark
Bernard Flowers
Betty Austin
Carmen Grinan
Eddie McIntosh
Evelyn Alexander
Flerida Gonzalez
Henry Carley
Hildreth Fleming
John Billups
Leroy Long
Mary Franklin
Ronald Cherry
Wilbert Malphus
William Wood

Marker Number: None Date: 2018 County: Hillsborough Marker Type: City Sponsored or placed by: Hillsborough County Historical Advisory Council, Tampa Woolworth Project Website: Not listed

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