13th to be specific, that they, too, would start segregated lunch counter sit-ins.ga they would have young black people sit down at the whites only lunch counters in segregated downtown jacksonville, florida. first one was august 13th. they were berated and attacked.e the lunch counters were actually closed down in the middle of the day rather than serve those young people.e the lights were turned off.ts the kids nevertheless decided e that they would keep doing it and they would expand it to include all the segregated lunch counters in downtown ud jacksonville. that first peaceful nonviolent sit-in had been on august 13th.d by august 16th, they had not just resistance and attacks in the moment they had organized resistance. the white citizens council in si jacksonville convened a meeting august 16th in which they pledged they were going to stopt these kids, stop these young th people from what they were doing at all costs. by august 24th, not yet two weeks into this process, the local
downtown jacksonville and ostensibly were targeting the young people, the naacp youth council that had been carrying out the nonviolent civil disobedience at the lunch counters. but turns out the klan couldn t 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 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.
supermarket because they were black. think back to 2015 in charleston, south carolina, my home state, where nine innocent worshippers at mother emanuel, emanuel ame church were killed because they were black. so today is the actual anniversary, 60th anniversary of the march on washington. yesterday was another anniversary in jacksonville. it s the anniversary of something that is locally called ax handle saturday, and what happened was on august 27th, 1960, a group of young, mostly students who were conducting a sit-in to protest a segregated lunch counter were attacked by a white mob bearing baseball bats and ax handles, and when the police finally intervened, they intervened on the side of a white mob, and arrested the black victims rather than the
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