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
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
Jacksonville park. they went to retrieve them from that park. they handed out more of them from vehicle. some sort of enter track. and then these clansmen, something like 200 of them just murat it into downtown jacksonville. and they of sensibly were targeting the young people. the naacp youth council that had been carrying out the non violent civil disobedience at the lunch counters. but it 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. second class, alton yates was cracked across the skull. but they also went after anybody who was black. in downtown jacksonville that they. including women, and kids, and men who had nothing to do with the demonstration at all. we re just passersby. this photo appeared in life magazine at the time.
They said that the plan was to, the informant said the plan wasm to get this woman near to where the sit-in demonstration was em 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 hell in downtown jacksonville.le in the end though that was their plan they decided they didn t de need the pretext of the woman re 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 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 kl