White segregationists try to stop Black protesters from entering water at segregated beach, St. Augustine, Florida, today 1964: pic.twitter.com/v1mhIVp14y
— Michael Beschloss (@BeschlossDC) June 25, 2021
How the UPI reported it the following day…
— SFDB (@sfdb) June 25, 2021
[Palm Beach Post] pic.twitter.com/zfAspMRG8w
There's a park called Old Slave Market??????
— Mark Jaffe, Bay Area by way of Brooklyn. Lawyer (@MarkJKings) June 25, 2021
— SFDB (@sfdb) June 25, 2021
Here is another ugly incident from 1964, just a few days earlier. https://t.co/ov7Bf7y7u4
— Cheryl NO UNITY WITHOUT ACCOUNTABILITY! (@CherylHirschi) June 25, 2021
One day before the Civil Rights Act was passed, 16 y.o. Mimi Jones participated in a "wade-in" against segregation at a St. Augustine motel pool when the manager poured hydrochloric acid in the pool. Police were called and the waders were arrested. pic.twitter.com/DAONKd5Dv2
— dan johnston (@itsdanjohnston) June 25, 2021
I was not aware of this, but I’m nearby so I got in my car and drove to the site, since torn down and now a Hilton. Here are some pics pic.twitter.com/ASyk6IlNkn
— HGOT (@FBITennis) June 26, 2021
This one of my dad (age 14) and friends being “asked to leave” the beach in 1961, actually made the History of Fort Lauderdale archive. pic.twitter.com/zuKb3Gthpf
— The Midnight Thud (@HankB3400) June 26, 2021
They also cemented over a bunch of public pools to keep Black people out of them.
— Tyler Barnum (@phinneas8052) June 25, 2021
Where I live they just drained and filled in the pool rather than obey court-ordered integration. The ruins are still there. Such a scar. pic.twitter.com/VZ0NwiUHu4
— Molly (@itsmolly) June 25, 2021
Lynchburg, Virginia’s Riverside Park. Brighter side: a local minister took his old-money interitance and built a pool and camp with his family estate grounds, open to anyone, just to piss off the segregationists, including none other than Jerry Falwell. It’s still open.
— Molly (@itsmolly) June 25, 2021
It got its name from John Lynch, an abolitionist Quaker who owned a ferry that the town grew out of. While we’ve had our share of racist history, to my knowledge, there are no recorded instances of lynchings happening in the city of Lynchburg.
— Molly (@itsmolly) June 26, 2021
This is where the 'blacks can't swim' stereotype comes from. Blacks were forbidden from using public pools during the segregation era and whites controlled public beaches. This happened across the country, not just the south.https://t.co/EnhJckSQWv
— dave504 (@dave504) June 25, 2021
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