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This very special event, “Created Equal: 60th Anniversary of the TLH Lunch Counter Sit-ins,” will highlight this important local civil rights history — what happened here changed the world — giving particular emphasis to the role played by Patricia Stephens Due, a FAMU student leader who spearheaded these 1960 protests along with her sister Priscilla Stephens Kruize through the local chapter of the Congress Of Racial Equality (CORE).
Patricia, who is arguably the most significant female civil rights leader after Rosa Parks, had her eyes badly damaged during one of these protests when a police officer shot off a tear gas canister in her direction (forcing Patricia to wear sunglasses the rest of her life). Undeterred, Patricia went on to organize the first ever “jail-in” of the civil rights movement, as they and a handful of other protesters — including 16-year-old high school student Henry Steele — refused to post bail after being arrested, preferring instead to call attention to their cause by remaining in the Leon County Jail for seven long weeks. The jail-in succeeded in generating considerable national attention. For example, black baseball pioneer Jackie Robinson wrote about the protests in his newspaper column. (He also sent letters of encouragement and journals to the protesters to record their experience for history.)
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