It was never about a hot dog and a Coke! : a personal account of the 1960 sit-in demonstrations in Jacksonville, Florida and Ax Handle Saturday.
Entry/Object ID
Library.121
Description
x,191 p. : ill., ports. ; 23 cm
It was never about a hot dog and a Coke! : a personal account of the 1960 sit-in demonstrations in Jacksonville, Florida and Ax Handle Saturday by Rodney L. Hurst.
"On August 27, 1960, more than 200 whites with ax handles and baseball bats attacked members of the Jacksonville Youth Council NAACP in downtown Jacksonville who were sitting in at white lunch counters protesting racism and segregation. Referred to as Ax Handle Saturday..."
Includes index.
Contents: Jacksonville and the Duval County School System, circa late fifties and early sixties (Chitlin Circuit, Two Spot Night Club, Charlie Ed Craddock, Preston Hale Craddock) -- News for and about the colored people of Jacksonville -- Rutledge Pearson and the Jacksonville Youth Council NAACP -- Earl Johnson -- The black church -- The Jacksonville Youth Council NAACP and the 1960 sit-in demonstrations -- Richard Charles Parker -- The Boomerangs -- August 27, 1960 Ax Handle Saturday -- Mrs. Ruby Hurley -- August 28, 1960, the day after Ax Handle Saturday -- Richard Charles Parker II -- Dr. Martin Luther King -- The first kneel-in -- The NAACP mass meetings -- Reverend Charles White McGehee -- Judge Marion Gooding -- Mayer Haydon Burns -- The Jacksonville Chronicle -- State Representative George Stallings -- Telling the Ax Handle Saturday story -- The bi-racial committee -- Warren Folks -- Summary -- Mr. Pearson's death -- The Jacksonville Youth Council NAACP hall of fame.
