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Hero, the naacp youth council in jacksonville, florida. decided in 1960. august 1960. august 16th to be specific that they too would have segregated lunch sedans. they would have black people say that the white lunch counters and segregated florida. the first one was on the 13th. they were buried it, attacked, the lunch counters were closed down in the middle of the day rather than serve those young people. the lights were turned off. the kids, nevertheless decided that they would keep doing it. and they would expanded to include all the counties in downtown jacksonville. the first one had been on august 13th. by august 16th, they have not just the resistance of attacks but in the moment they had an organized resistance. the white citizens council in jacksonville convened a meeting august 16th in which they ....
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 ....
They, too, would start segregated lunch counter sit-ins. 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. the lunch counters were actually closed down in the middle of the day rather than serve those young people. the lights were turned off. the kids nevertheless decided that they would keep doing it and they would expand it to include all the segregated lunch counters in downtown jacksonville. that first peaceful nonviolent sit-in had been on august 13th. by august 16th, they had not just resistance and attacks in the moment they had organized resistance. the white citizens council in jacksonville convened a meeting august 16th in which they pledged they were going to stop these kids, stop these young people from what they were doing at all costs. by august 24th, not yet two ....
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 ....