• January 21, 2021

The Civil Rights Papers of Cody Fowler and Steven Lawson

Public Address on Progress Village

The Civil Rights Papers of Cody Fowler and Steven Lawson

811 986 Tomaro Taylor

Cody Fowler (1892 – 1978) was a prominent attorney who played a major role in furthering nonviolent racial integration in Tampa during the turbulent Civil Rights era of the 1960s. Dr. Steven F. Lawson is former professor at the University of South Florida. Together, Fowler’s and Lawson’s papers document Tampa’s Bi-Racial Committee,  the city’s Commission on Community Relations,  as well as the numerous issues faced by African Americans in the 1960s and early 1970s.

Dates: 1960 – 1974
Extent: 3 linear feet (6 boxes)

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