USF Libraries’ Special Collections helps to bring Tampa’s lunch counter sit-ins to the stage

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This newly published article reflects on efforts of University of South Florida history professors and USF Libraries’ Special Collections that began in the 1970’s to preserve the history of Tampa’s civil rights history.

In 2023, that preserved history fueled Mark Leib, an assistant professor of instruction in USF’s Department of English, to write a play memorializing the peaceful Tampa sit-in protests held decades earlier.

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