Ax Handle Saturday - Revisited - Season One

Описание: Our hosts Tracy Rigdon & Shelton Hull discuss the anniversary of Ax Handle Saturday which occurred on August 27th 1960 at Hemming park in Jacksonville, FL. The incident was on the Front page of the New York Times but not the Florida Times Union.

"More than 200 white people wielding baseball bats and ax handles chased African Americans through the streets of downtown Jacksonville, trying to beat them into submission.

It was August 27, 1960, a day that became known as “Ax Handle Saturday.”

"Ax Handle Saturday, also known as the Jacksonville riot of 1960, was a racially motivated attack that took place in Hemming Park (now known as James Weldon Johnson Park or JWJ Park)[1] in Jacksonville, Florida, on August 27, 1960. A group of white men attacked African Americans who were engaging in sit-in protests opposing racial segregation. The attack took its name from the ax handles used by the attackers." - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ax_Hand...

The violent attack was in response to peaceful lunch counter demonstrations organized by the Jacksonville Youth Council of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP)." ** https://myfloridahistory.org/frontier...

Co-host Shelton Hull also wrote a story for FOLIO Weekly 2.0 Magazine, "Ax Handle Saturday- Sixty Years Later. ** https://issuu.com/folioweekly/docs/fo...

Also see "It Was Never About a Hotdog and a Coke! A Personal Account of the 1960 sit-in Demonstrations in Jacksonville, Florida and AX Handle Saturday Paperback – January 11, 2018
by Rodney L Hurst Sr. (Author)"

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