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By Ken Storey
on Sun, Feb 21, 2021 at 7:49 PM
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The owner of the Monson Motor Lodge in St. Augustine attempting to enforce his whites only pool rules in 1964.
Florida is beginning to acknowledge the horrific injustices of its past, but it is lagging behind as other states forge ahead.
In 2019, Florida attempted to embrace a growing interest in civil rights tourism when it added five sites to the U.S. Civil Rights Trail. The Trail was established the year prior as a way to connect the more than sixty primary and forty secondary sites that played a paramount role in the civil rights movement of the mid-twentieth century. ....

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