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
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.pa florida times union. they didn t cover the sit-ins at the downtown lunch counters at all, and when it came to the he 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, 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