TIMELINE
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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
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
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 |