Now a Civil Rights Museum, this building was originally a dentist's office.
An unnamed Black citizen who attended a meeting between NAACP and St. Augustine city officials on June 16 receives an anonymous threat to "Watch out for the KKK." Th...
Leader of the St. Augustine Civil Rights Movement.
St. Augustine radio station WFOY reported in their morning show that Black leaders in St. Augustine are arming themselves in the battle for equal rights. While the s...
In a televised speech that is now infamous, President John F. Kennedy expressed that America was being faced with "a moral issue ... as old as the scriptures and as...
150 students from Richard J. Murray High School held a peaceful protest against segregation at the Hotel Ponce de Leon, now Flagler College. Police were called, and...
During an 'as usual' day of picketing for youth demonstrators in St. Augustine, sixteen teenagers were arrested at four different lunch counters in the city. Among t...
Local WWII patriot and Civil Rights activist.
Led by NAACP advisor Dr. R. B. Hayling, these demonstrations were conducted on the sidewalks and streets of historic downtown St. Augustine. The young demonstrators...
