{"id":402524,"date":"2026-09-17T14:06:47","date_gmt":"2026-09-17T14:06:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/402524\/"},"modified":"2026-09-17T14:06:47","modified_gmt":"2026-09-17T14:06:47","slug":"documentary-about-tampas-1960-woolworth-sit-ins-screens-for-free-again-this-weekend","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/402524\/","title":{"rendered":"Documentary about Tampa’s 1960 Woolworth sit-ins screens for free again this weekend"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"AMembers of the 1960 Tampa Woolworth sit-ins outside the Franklin Exchange and WIlson buildings in downtown Tampa on Nov. 17, 2025. Credit: c\/o WEDU<\/p>\n

The story of Tampa\u2019s peaceful February 1960 Woolworth sit-ins<\/a> cannot be shared far enough. That\u2019s when courageous Black high school students (including figures like former state Sen. Arthenia Joyner and NAACP Youth Council leader Clarence Fort) organized peaceful sit-ins at a downtown F.W. Woolworth lunch counter on Franklin Street.<\/p>\n

The action inspired an award-winning play by former Creative Loafing Tampa Bay theater critic Mark Leib, and a documentary about the Stageworks production.<\/p>\n

This weekend\u2019s 12th Annual Family Heritage Festival put on by the Hillsborough Public Library Cooperative includes a screening of a documentary that helps tell the untold chapter of Tampa\u2019s role in the civil rights movement.<\/p>\n

\u201cTriumph,\u201d produced by WEDU PBS<\/a> screens for free, twice (noon, 1 p.m.) in between presentations on Florida\u2019s film and television history, Ybor City, and West Tampa.<\/p>\n

There\u2019s no cover for the 12th Annual Family Heritage Festival happening Saturday, Sept. 19 at Tampa\u2019s John F. Germany Public Library.<\/a><\/p>\n

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This article appears in Sept. 17 \u2013 23, 2026<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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