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TIMELINE
of the Saint Augustine Civil Rights Movement


INSTITUTIONS
CIVIL RIGHTS


​1960
Mar.        ​   March
                     ​Establishment of all-white Quadricentennial Celebration Commission
                     ​March 15-17
                     Sit-in at Woolworth's lunch counter at 31 King Street
                     Students from Florida Normal College
                     (Viola Edwards, Clayton Pittman, Robert Lovett,
                     ​Josephine Williams, Calhoun Christian, Alfred Lee) arrested
                     Represented by Daytona attorney Joseph Hatchet
                     One-man sit-in at McCrory's lunch counter at 158 Saint George Street
                     Hank Thomas arrested                     
1963
Mar.          March
                    Saint Augustine NAACP letter to President John F Kennedy
                    opposing federal grant for Quadricentennial
                    Fannie Fulwood and Eliza Hawthorne, signers
Jun.            NAACP Youth Council street protests of Woolworth's
​                    ​organized by Dr Robert Hayling
Jul.             July 23
                    Arrests at lunch counters of sixteen Black activists
​                    Juveniles known as The Saint Augustine Four (Samuel White,
                    Audrey Nell Edwards, JoeAnn Anderson, Willie Carl Singleton)
                    held one month in jail, five months in reform schools
                    for sit-in at Woolworth's
Aug.          August 28
                   ​March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom
                   ​Dr Martin Luther King Jr speech: I Have a Dream
Sep.          September 2
                   Labor Day protest by NAACP at the Slave Market
                   Twenty-seven arrested
                   Reverend Goldie Eubanks sentenced to six months
                   ​September 15
                   ​Bombing of 16th Street Baptist Church in Birmingham Alabama

                   September 18
                   Ku Klux Klan rally on US1 South at Hwy 312
                   Four Black activist observers (Dr Hayling, James Hauser,
                   Clyde Jenkins, Jimmie James Jackson) assaulted
Oct.           October 23
                   ​Firebombing of George Smith home on Gault Street 
                   October 24
                   Shooting death of white segregationist William Kinard
                   at Central Avenue and Duero Street
                   Rev Eubanks and Richard Eubanks arrested but not charged
1964
Jan.           January 14
                   ​The Saint Augustine Four ordered released
                   by Florida Governor Farris Bryant
                   January 21
                   ​Brunson family car burned outside Fullerwood School, 10 Hildreth Drive
                   ​Black students at all-white school
Feb.          February 7
                   ​Shots fired at home of Dr Hayling
                   ​Firebombing of Roberson family home at 167 Gault Street
                   
​Black students at Fullerwood School
                   February 10
                   Dr Hayling meeting with Gov Bryant in Tallahassee
                   Civil Rights Act passed in United States House of Representatives
                   filibuster in Senate led by bloc of Southern Democrats begins
Mar.         March 6
                   Dr King and SCLC meets Black activists in Orlando
                   (Dr Hayling, Rev Eubanks, Katherine Twine, Henry Twine)
                   Special Projects Director Reverend Hosea Williams
                   ​March 22
                   
​Assembling of student activists on Saint Augustine
                   ​March 25
​                   
​Picket at Visitors Information Center
                   ​March 28
                   ​Sit-in at Saint George Street Pharmacy, 121 Saint George Street
                   
​Barbara Lee (New York) arrested
                   ​March 30
                   ​March on Trinity Episcopal Church, 215 Saint George Street
                   ​led by Mary Peabody (Massachusetts), white wife of Episcopal Bishop

                   ​mother of Endicott Peabody, Governor of Massachusetts
                   ​March 31
                   ​Sit-in at Ponce de Leon Motor Lodge Restaurant
                   ​Black (Nellie Mitchell, Lillian Roberson, Georgia Reed, Kuter Eubanks,
                   ​Rosalie Phelps) and white (Mary Peabody, Hester Campbell,
                   
​Professor Lawrence Burkholder) activists among 117 arrested
Jun.           June 5
                   ​Dr King visit and press conference

                   ​June 7
​                   ​Attempted assassination of Dr King at Canright family home at 5480 Atlantic Avenue
                   June 9​
​                   ​Federal Judge Milton Simpson orders $100 limit on bonds on arrested demonstrators
                   declares night marches legal and entitled to protection
                   ​June 10
                   ​Civil Rights Act passes US Senate
                   ​June 11
                   ​Sit-in at Monson Motor Lodge Restaurant at 32 Bay Street
                   ​Dr King, Kathryn Fentress of SCLC arrested
                   ​Letter from the Saint Augustine Jail to Rabbi Israel Dresner (New Jersey)
                   ​June 12
                   ​Grand jury on racial violence convened by State Attorney Dan Warren
                   ​200 white Segregationists march through Lincolnville
                   ​led by JB Stoner of the Ku Klux Klan
                   June 16
​                   ​Jackie Robinson speech at Saint Paul AME Church at 85 Central Ave
                   June 17
                   ​Pray-in at Monson Motor Lodge Restaurant
                   June 18
                   Swim-in at the segregated Monson Motor Lodge Pool
                   Manager James Brock pours muriatic acid into the water
                   Police Officer Henry Billitz jumps into the pool to make arrests
                   iconic photographs circulated around the world
                   Arrests at Monson Motor Lodge Restaurant of seventeen rabbis (Eugene Borowitz,
                   ​Michael Robinson, Murray Saltzman, Allen Secher) ​led by Reverend Fred Shuttlesworth
                   ​Why We Went manifesto
                   June 19
                   ​Reverends Andrew Young, CT Vivian, Hosea Williams arrested
                   ​Civil Rights Act passes US Senate
                   June 20
​                   
Wade-in at whites only Saint Augustine Beach
                   Peter Bancroft, Al Lingo, and a white girl assaulted
                   June 21
                   Demonstrations on Plaza de la Constitucion
​                   June 22
​                   Attempted integration of First Methodist Church at 118 King Street
​                   Peter Bancroft and four others arrested

​                   Wade-in at Saint Augustine Beach
​​                   Activists attacked in two separate riots

Jul.            July 1
                   ​SCLC leadership exit
                   July 2
​                   Civil Rights Act signed into law by President Lyndon Johnson
​                   outlaws racial segregation ​in facilities open for public use
​                   and outlaws job discrimination on the basis of race or gender
​                   July 14
​                   Integration test at Congress Inn on 137 San Marco Boulevard
​                   Henry Twine and Robert Preiskil (New York) assaulted ​                   

​                   July 21
​                   Firebombing of Monson Motor Lodge Restaurant by Ku Klux Klan
​                   Flagler Hospital integration ordered by Judge Bryan Simpson
​                   following suit by Dr Hayling
​                   July 22
​                   ​Arrest warrants for Klan members from State Attorney Warren
​                   July 23
​                   Integration test at Santa Maria Restaurant at 135 Bay Street 
​                   and Marty's Restuarant at 2703 Ponce de Leon Boulevard (US1)
​                   Willie Bolden of SCLC refused service
 Aug.         August 5
​                   Bi-racial committee appointed by Grand Jury
​                   ​fails when whites refuse to serve
​                   August 13
​                   Integration tests successful at seventeen restaurants


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    • 1895 letter
    • 1896 two letters
    • 1901 patent
    • 1913 memorial
    • 1934 oldest woman
    • 1953 slab of wood
    • 2010 memoir