Frank Nims (1910-1958) was a descendant of one of Tallahassee oldest black families. An activist for civil rights, Nims and his uncles purchased beachfront property in Wakulla County and named the area Palmetto Beach. Truckloads of Blacks from the Frenchtown community would drive to the beach on weekends. He was chair of the selection committee which hired Tallahassee’s first black police officers in 1952 (this effort was led by the Inter-Civic Council, which also engineered the Tallahassee Bus Boycott) and worked to get state officials to construct housing accommodations for blacks on Panama City beach. In 1936, he was named assistant principal at the original Lincoln High School. He was 26-years-old and his boss, Principal Cecil H. Walker, was only 24. Nims was named principal of the Lincoln Elementary School in 1940 and in 1954, he became principal of Lincoln High School. In 1958 at age 47, Nims suffered a sudden fatal stroke after pulling into his driveway on Lincoln Street in Tallahassee.