At the age of 21, Clarence Fort served as the president of the Tampa, Florida NAACP Youth Council in 1960. He organized and participated in the city's first lunch counter sit-ins in the Woolworth Department store. Fort was born in 1938 in Alachua County, a small rural town east of Gainesville, Florida. He was raised […]
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