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the informant said the klan s initial plan had been sort of theatrical. they planned to have a white woman pretend to have been attacked by young black men who were trying to desegregate the lunch counters. they said that the plan was to, the informant said the plan was to get this woman near to where the sit-in demonstration was happening and then she would collapse and say she had been attacked and that s why she collapsed. and they thought that would give the klansmen all the cover they d need to open up the gates of hel in downtown jacksonville. in the end though that was their plan they decided they didn t need the pretext of the woman pretending to be attacked, the woman pretending to collapse. the klansmen stashed ax handles and baseball bats in the bushes at a downtown jacksonville park. they went and retrieved them from that park. they handed out more of them from a vehicle, some sort of van or truck, and then these klansmen, something like 200 of them, just mauraded into
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
hundreds of white men running through the downtown chasing people down and beating them with ax handles, after that initial, frenzied attack, the rioting in jacksonville actually continued for two more nights. the florida town 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. it has in years since covered
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