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.
After barber college, Fort worked in a Tampa barber shop.
20-year-old barber at the time, Fort was the new president of the NAACP Youth Council in Tampa.
After a week of the non-violent sit-ins, Tampa’s then-Mayor Julian Lane appointed a biracial committee to discuss segregation issues and, by September 1960, the city’s lunch counters were integrated.
