A. Leon Lowry, who helped integrate the lunch counters in 1960, helped negotiate another period of progress and peace. On February 29, 1960, peaceful protests of segregation helped take down Jim Crow Laws in Tampa, and inspired efforts to integrate lunch counters across the nation. Tampa’s Path to Equality Part Six: The 'Tampa Technique'. "The ‘Tampa Technique’ was a product of people who cared and who believed and reasoned and believed in dialog," Dr. Lawson said. A. Leon Lowry, who helped integrate the lunch counters in 1960, helped negotiate another period of progress and peace.