into jacksonville the following saturday, august 27th. whereupon they would ve stashed baseball bats and ax handles. to use as their weapons. the informant said that the cohen s initial plan had been theatrical. they had planned to have a white woman for tend to have been attacked by young, black men who are trying to desegregate the lunch counters. they said that the plan was to, the informant said that the plan was to get this woman near to where the sudden demonstration was happening. and then she would collapse. and say that she had been attacked and that s why she had collapsed. and they thought that that would give the clansmen all the cover that they need to open up the gates of hell in downtown jacksonville. in the end though that was their plan. they decided they did not need the pretext of the women pretending to be attacked. the women attending to collapse. the clansmen stashed back sandals and baseball bats in the bushes in downtown
but they went after him, too. and with images like this coming out of jacksonville, you can see why this explosion of racist violence on august 27th in jacksonville, florida, 1960, you can see why it got national news. it ended up, this photo, in life magazine and also ended up on the front page of the new york times. violence flares in jacksonville. 50 injured as white gangs clash with negros. in life magazine, on the front page of the new york times. you know where it didn t end up on the front page was the main white newspaper in jacksonville, florida. florida times union. they didn t cover the sit-ins at the downtown lunch counters at all and when it came to the white race riot on august 27th they buried coverage of that on page 15 of the paper. which is all the more amazing when you consider that after the initial frenzied attack,
contain themselves and it turned into just a free for all. and, yes, the naacp youth council was set upon, airman second class alton yates was cracked across the skull. they also just went after everybody who was black in wh downtown jacksonville that day including women and kids and men who had nothing to do with the demonstration at all who were just passersby. this photo appeared in life magazine at the time. you see that young man bloodied and dazed. he actually was not an activist. he had not been part of the lunch counter sit-ins at all. his name was charlie griffin. he was just a high school junior, just a bystander. but they went after him, too. and with images like this coming out of jacksonville, you can see why this explosion of racist violence on august 27th in
meeting to plan not just resistance but a violent counterattack to stop these kids. and we know this. there is documentary proof of it because the local klan in jacksonville at the time included one man who volunteered to be an fbi informant inside the klan and he gave the minutef of the klan meeting from august 24th, 1960, to the fbi. this meeting in which they planned to attack these young people from the naacp youth a council. the fbi then alerted the local sheriff s office that the klan was planning a violent attack. local authorities, local law or enforcement knew the whole plan in advance. they knew the klan was planning to bring hundreds of white men downtown into jacksonville the following saturday, august 27th, whereupon they would have stashed baseball bats and ax handles to use as their weapons. the informant said the klan s initial plan had been sort of theatrical.an they planned to have a white woman pretend to have been attacked by young black men who were trying to deseg
bloodied and dazed, he actually was not an activist. he had not been part of the lunch counter sedans at all. his name was charlie griffin. he was just a high school junior. just a bystander. but they went after him to. and with images like this coming out of jacksonville. you can see why this explosion of racist violence on august 27th in jacksonville, florida. 1960. if you could see why it got national news. if youit ended, up this voghelld life magazine. it also ended up in lifetimes. injured, as white clans clashed with [bleep]. you know where it didn t end up on the wet front page? in the newspaper, in the white part of florida. it didn t cover the sedans that white counters at all.