St. Augustine Civil Rights
Explore St. Augustine's Civil Rights History
Discover St. Augustine's rise to national attention when civil rights activists were arrested and assaulted as they protested segregation laws in 1964.
St. Augustine movement - Wikipedia
The St. Augustine movement was a part of the wider Civil Rights Movement, taking place in St. Augustine, Florida from 1963 to 1964. It was a major event in ...
St. Augustine, Florida | The Martin Luther King, Jr. Research and ...
Martin Luther King, Jr., and the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC) launched a massive campaign supporting the small local movement to end racial ...
The St. Augustine Movement (1963-1964) • - Blackpast
The St. Augustine Movement was a series of civil rights protests that occurred in St. Augustine, Florida between 1963 and 1964.
The Civil Rights Movement in St. Augustine: Publications
Extremists, led by Ku Klux Klan and John Birch Society members, saw in St. Augustine a last opportunity to halt the forces of racial change.
Accord Freedom Trail & Civil Rights Museum of St. Augustine
Accord Freedom Trail & Civil Rights Museum of St. Augustine, Saint Augustine, Florida. 762 likes · 1 talking about this · 303 were here. ACCORD Freedom...
Civil Rights Library of St. Augustine - Flagler College
The Civil Rights Library of St. Augustine preserves, and makes available to the public, historical material documenting the local civil rights movement during ...
Our History | St. Augustine, FL
Vestiges of the First Spanish Colonial Period (1565 to 1764) remain today in St. Augustine in the form of the town plan originally laid out by Governor Gonzalo ...
National Historic Preservation District – US Civil Rights Trail
Discover why this city gained national attention during the Civil Rights Movement. Tour sites where meetings for peaceful protests were planned.
Augustine remembers the protesters who challenged segregation. There's no escaping history in St. Augustine, Florida. Founded in 1565, it proudly calls itself ...
Speaking Out in St. Augustine | The Jackie Robinson Museum
On June 16, 1964, Jackie Robinson visited St. Augustine, Florida at the urging of Martin Luther King Jr.'s Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC).
"Florida's Birmingham": The Civil Rights Movement in St. Augustine ...
Young, former U.S. Ambassador to the UN and Mayor of Atlanta, GA. who in 1964, was sent to St. Augustine by Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. and ends ...
Augustine ,Florida. The ACCORD Freedom Trail marker located at 79 Bridge Street is the location of the newly opened ACCORD Civil Rights Museum. The museum ...
St. Augustine Movement 1963-1964
An outline of the people and events involved in the struggle for civil rights in St. Augustine in 1963 and 1964.
Civil Rights & Butler Beach - St. Augustine - Florida's Historic Coast
Historic Butler Beach offers a glimpse at African American history and American race relations on Florida's Historic Coast. Learn more here.
St. Augustine Civil Rights Demonstrations, 1964 - Florida Memory
Martin Luther King Jr. and Governor Farris Bryant, and speeches by segregationists such as Reverend Connie Lynch, Richard "Hoss" Manucy, and Klansman J.B. ...
Marching for the Movement in St. Augustine - National Park Service
Students will examine events and people in Florida history as it relates to the civil rights movement for African Americans.
June 18, 1964: St. Augustine Swim-In - Zinn Education Project
Augustine, Florida. In June 1964, James Brock dumped acid into the water at the Monson Motor Lodge in St. Augustine, Florida. ©Bettmann/Corbis.
The St. Augustine Four - ACCORD Freedom Trail
Augustine Four": Audrey Nell Edwards, JoeAnn Anderson Ulmer, Willie Carl Singleton, and Samuel White. Young people formed the shock troops of the civil rights ...
Chapter 22: St. Augustine | The Martin Luther King, Jr. Research and ...
The bill now pending in Congress is the child of a storm, the product of the most turbulent motion the nation has ever known in peacetime.