Let's celebrate Tallahassee's past to change the future
Wednesday, January 22, 2020
January 22, 2020 From CNN
Florida is my father's chosen state. He often jokes that he came to Tallahassee to attend FAMU (Florida Agricultural and Mechanical University) Law School in 1960 after he saw my mother's picture in "Jet," the digest published by Johnson Publishing Company to cover news and general interest stories for African-American readers.
True story, but not the full story.
The student sit-in movement that started in Greensboro, North Carolina, on February 1, 1960, was spreading across the South. My father, John Due Jr., had been studying at Indiana State University but felt that the student activism there was too muted and students were constrained by conservative values even in the black community.
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