Tampa's 48th mayor, Julian B. Lane, played a role in the Civil Rights Movement as one of the first southern mayors to support ...

On February 29, 1960, students led sit-ins at a segregated lunch counter, and it led to the integration of lunch counters throughout the city. The story of Tampa's civil rights movement is quite ...

Tampa playwright Mark Leib’s play about the Civil Rights sit-ins in Tampa in 1960 is scheduled at the Straz Center for the Performing Arts on March 6-9. The play, “When the Righteous Triumph,” was ...

The lunch counter sit-in would sweep the nation and give a second wind to the civil rights movement ... said it was at the start of the sit-ins that then-state NAACP president Kelly Alexander ...

FOX 13's Briona Arradondo reports on a group of black USF students who staged a sit-in of a segregated lunch counter in Tampa during the Civil Rights Movement in the 1960s who are having their legacy ...

Black History Month celebrates towering figures like Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., Malcolm X and Rosa Parks— rightfully so, as ...

The Museum of History and Star Trolley are partnering to offer a unique and insightful tour exploring the history of the ...

Stageworks Theatre’s upcoming production, “When the Righteous Triumph,” will play at The Straz Center on March 6-9. It tells ...

Civil rights champions have diverse college journeys. Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. may be the most recognized civil rights leader in U.S. history, but across many decades, numerous Black activists ...

Joyce Cusack, now 82, participated in a 1960 lunch counter sit-in in DeLand, Florida, at the age of 17 to protest segregation ...

A Midlands man has been capturing history through different set of lenses literally.Cecil Williams has been a photographer ...

Jane Monreal shares how a choice made by four college students in 1960 sparked a larger movement in the fight for civil rights.