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Dr. Fannie McDugle

Young and fearless describes Fannie McDugle who moved to Sarasota’s Overtown at age 15 from Atlanta with her family in 1947.
 She attended Booker High School from 7th to 8th grade, then left to attend a private boarding school in Cordele, Georgia. Profits from her mother’s dress shop and her father’s paycheck from Sarasota Memorial Hospital paid the tuition. McDugle went to school to become a nurse but didn’t like it. Instead, she attended cosmetology school. She participated in Woolworth sit-ins by entering dress stores on Main Street to integrate them as a member of the NAACP. “We’d all go in as a group. It felt good doing what was right.”