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