Person they could find in jacksonville that day and that night and the night after. ax handle saturday. this weekend on saturday in washington, d.c. there was a big commemoration of the 60th at anniversary of the march on washington. 60 years since a quarter million americans came to washington to press peacefully for civil rights. march on washington is of course one of the red letter, most important days in american history. it s just a moral apex moment for this country that still would be remembered as such even if it hadn t provided the setting for one of the most important and beloved speeches in the modern world. the i have a dream speech from martin luther king. but as that 60th anniversary of the march on washington was celebrated this weekend and today in washington, in jacksonville this weekend they were also marking the
The anniversary of what has become known as ax handle saturday such a dramatic name but they really did stockpile and hand out ax handles and use them in an orgy of white violence against any black person they could find in jacksonville that day and that night and the night after. ax handle saturday. this weekend on saturday in washington, d.c. there was a big commemoration of the 60th anniversary of the march on washington. 60 years since a quarter million americans came to washington to press peacefully for civil rights. march on washington is of course one of the red letter, most important days in american history. it s just a moral apex moment for this country that still would be remembered as such even if it hadn t provided the setting for one of the most important and beloved speeches in the modern world. the i have a dream speech from
2017 he was p sent for a 72-hour mental health evaluation under the baker act and released according to authorities. i don t know legally, given the way the laws are written right now in the state of florida that there was anything that could have been done. and therein lies the frustration for me. community representatives are demanding broader action to address racism and hate crimes. it s unjust that we can t even walk on the sidewalks. we re not safe in any stores. reporter: a federal hate crimes probe has already been launched. and brian todd is with us now. brian, this shooting comes on the anniversary on another act of racial violence in jacksonville. what can you tell us about that? reporter: that s right, john. it came on the weekend the city marked the 63rd anniversary of an incident called ax handle saturday, an incident in 1960 where more than 200 white rioters beat a group of black protesters. it came the same weekend, as you
Even walk on the sidewalks, we re not safe in any stores. a federal hate crimes probe has already been launched. brian todd is with us now. brian, this shooting comes on the anniversary of another act of racial violence in jacksonville. what can you tell us about that? that s right, john. it came on the same weekend as the 63rd anniversary of an incident called ax handle saturday. that was an incident in 1960 where a group of more than 200 white rioters wielding ax handles and baseball backs beat a group of black protesters. it came the same weekend, as you mentioned, when everybody on the country commemorated the 60th anniversary of the march on washington. and it came five years to the day after another mass shooting in downtown jacksonville. that one was not race related, but this was a shooting of the jacksonville landing in a metal video game tournament where ten people were all the symbolism, john, all the anniversary surrounding this event, just leading to greater frustr
Continued for two more nights. the florida times union the white paper of record did not see fit to mention it. it was just a hurricane of violence. in the end, the kids, the young people who organized those protests at the lunch counters, they won. they started those protests like i said in august, 1960. by the spring of 1961, jacksonville had quietly integrated its downtown lunch counters. and it took longer but the florida times union newspaper in recent years has tried to make up for the dismal role that it played in these events. they have in years since devoted serious coverage to the annual anniversary of what has become known as ax handle saturday such a dramatic name but they really did stockpile and hand out ax handles and use them in an orgy of white violence against any black