Reddick Family's House
56 Park Place
James G. Reddick was a longtime principle of Excelsior School
and editor of this town's first black newspaper, The St. Augustine Post.
His wife Maude was the supervisor of black schools in St. Augustine
before integration. The Reddicks gave lodging to two bishops' wives who
brought national attention to racism in St. Augustine by getting arrested
in demonstrations here.
Bethel Baptist Church
222 Riberia Street
Bethel Baptist Church provided meeting space for the NAACP
Youth Council, where Dr.
Hayling taught students peaceful protest
techniques. The church also hosted a "Freedom School," where Reverend
Andrew Young taught black history and the history of the civil rights
movement.
Shepherd Family's House
84 St. Benedict Street
St. Paul
A.M.E.'s Reverend Shepherd Hunter and his wife
Alberta lived here, while their church hosted mass rallies with Dr. King
and Jackie Robinson. Their granddaughter, Charlayne Hunter-Gault, became
the first black woman to attend the University of Georgia, and
correspondent for the television program "MacNeil/Lehrer News Hour."
Georgie Mae Reed's House
1074 West King Street
This was the home of Georgie Mae Reed, a polio patient who
accompanied several elderly women in St. Augustine's first nationally
broadcasted civil rights protest. The women, important political
figures, asked for service at the Ponce de Leon Motor Lodge restaurant
and were arrested because they were a racially mixed group. |