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Ax Handle Saturday, also known as the Jacksonville riot of 1960, was a racially motivated attack in Hemming Park (since renamed James Weldon Johnson Park) in Jacksonville, Florida, on August 27, 1960. A group of about 200 white men used baseball bats and ax handles to attack black people who were in sit-in protests opposing racial segregation.
The history of Black people in Florida dates back to the pre-American period, beginning with the arrival of Congolese-Spanish conquistador Juan Garrido in 1513, the enslaved Afro-Spanish explorer Estevanico in 1528, and the landing of free and African enslaved persons at Mission Nombre de Dios in the future St. Augustine, Florida in 1565.
A Tallahassee native, Hayling served as an Air Force officer, and then became the first black dentist in Florida to be elected to the American Dental Association. He set up business in St. Augustine in 1960 and joined the local National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) that year. [6]
By 1960 the number of African Americans in Florida had increased to 880,186, but declined proportionally to 18% of the state's population. [citation needed] This was a much smaller proportion than in 1900, when the census showed they comprised 44% of the state's population, while numbering 230,730 persons. [109]
African Methodist Episcopal churches in Florida (7 P) African-American people in Florida politics (3 C, 21 P) African-American tourist attractions in Florida (1 C, 9 P)
Most of the members taking part in the working group developing new standards for teaching African American history in Florida reportedly ... against and by African Americans”. “People were ...
List of African American historic places in Florida This list of African American Historic Places in Florida is based on a book by the National Park Service , The Preservation Press , the National Trust for Historic Preservation , and the National Conference of State Historic Preservation Officers .
In October 1862 Union forces captured a Confederate battery in the Battle of St. Johns Bluff and occupied Jacksonville. Throughout the war Jacksonville changed hands several times, though never with a battle. On February 20, 1864, Union soldiers from Jacksonville marched inland and confronted the Confederate Army at the Battle of Olustee. [17] [18]