The story of Tampa's civil rights movement is different from the conflicts seen in Birmingham and Selma. The full story never ...
Tampa is preparing to celebrate one of the greatest breakthroughs in civil rights history. At the dawn of the civil rights ...
In 1960, a group of Black students protested racial injustice with a sit-in at a whites-only lunch counter in Tampa, and that piece of Tampa’s history is about to take center stage at the Straz Center ...
Thanks to what we called “Jim Crow laws,” African Americans weren’t welcome at department store lunch counters throughout the segregated South. They could buy food, but they had to pick it ...
Joyce Cusack, now 82, participated in a 1960 lunch counter sit-in in DeLand, Florida, at the age of 17 to protest segregation ...
When the Righteous Triumph” is being revived for a March 6-9 run at the Straz Center. It tells the story of Tampa’s F.W.
In honor of Black History Month, we're taking a look at three Nashville landmarks that played a major role in the Civil ...