Now a Civil Rights Museum, this building was originally a dentist's office.
Commemorates the night of June 9, 1964.
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...
Center of defense and heritage.
The House of Representatives created a judiciary committee to hear proposals for federal civil rights legislation. Over the course of the summer, the representatives...
America's most arrested rabbi.
Historically Black College that once stood in St. Augustine.
The baseball star spoke at St. Paul AME Church, urging the audience to register to vote...
Director J. Edgar Hoover received this report, which detailed the racial climate in North Florida...
Orator, Reverend, and iconic Civil Rights activist.
Historic District founded by freed people in 1866.
First Public school for Black students in the city.
Lincolnville Neighborhood is listed as a Historic District in the National Register of Historic Places...
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...
Ownership of Fort Marion transferred to the National Park Service.
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...
The Southern Christian Leadership Conference is a civil rights organization that was founded by Dr. Martin Luther King Jr and other Alabama activists. This was publi...
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...
Founded in 1873.
Prominent local activists and public figures.
Greenspace honoring local heroes.