TAMPA, Fla. – The Metropolis of Tampa hosted a ceremony on Thursday honoring the sixty fifth anniversary of the historic Woolworth lunch counter sit-ins, which marked a breakthrough within the Civil Rights Motion.
Tampa’s position within the Civil Rights Motion
The backstory:
On Feb. 29, 1960, dozens of scholars from Blake and Middleton excessive faculties gathered at historic St. Paul A.M.E. Church, walked to Woolworth on Franklin Avenue downtown, and sat on the lunch counter.
College students take part in a sit-in at Woolworth on Franklin St.
They returned by the primary week of March, and Mayor Julian B. Lane ordered the police to guard the scholars.
Tampa’s Path to Equality Half 4: The Sit-ins
Tampa’s protests adopted a strategic nonviolent strategy that grew to become referred to as the “Tampa Method,” which helped pave the way in which for integration.
Tampa’s Path to Equality Half 5: The Breakthrough
This March, Stageworks Theatre plans to focus on the 1960 Tampa sit-ins with a manufacturing of “When the Righteous Triumph” on the Straz Heart for the Performing Arts.
Historic marker commemorates the Civil Rights sit-in on the former F.W. Woolworth Retailer
Ceremony marks sixty fifth anniversary
Surviving members have been in attendance at Thursday’s occasion, which came about on the former F.W. Woolworth constructing in Tampa the place the sit-ins came about.
In the course of the ceremony, the Hillsborough County Fee and the Metropolis of Tampa issued proclamations declaring March 1 “Woolworth Sit-In Anniversary Day.”
Pictured: Tampa Mayor Jane Castor with surviving members of the 1960 lunch counter sit-ins in Tampa.
What they’re saying:
“That is an honor for this group, for the mayor and the county to acknowledge that the work that was carried out by the ‘Brave 40’ – that is what I’ve named us – is being acknowledged,” mentioned Arthenia Joyner, former Florida State Senator and sit-in participant.
“You took a stand by taking a seat,” former U.S. Rep. Jim Davis mentioned. “And you probably did so primarily based in your steadfast conviction that we’re not simply all equal within the eyes of God, however we must be equal within the eyes of man.”
“To make such a profound assertion solely armed with braveness and conviction, that may be a story that we must always by no means, ever overlook,” Tampa Mayor Jane Castor mentioned.
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The Supply: This story was written utilizing data from the Metropolis of Tampa and former FOX 13 Information studies.
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