Year

1964

Video Details

26:00; B&W; sound; V-157

Description

This film provides extensive footage of the St. Augustine civil rights demonstrations. It shows demonstrations by blacks on the beach in St. Augustine, counter demonstrations by whites, speeches made by Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and Governor Farris Bryant, and speeches by segregationists such as Reverend Connie Lynch, Richard "Hoss" Manucy, and Klansman J.B. Stoner. It also includes scenes of the highway patrol sent in to assist local law enforcement officials.

Corporate Subject

Florida Highway Patrol

Geographic Subject

Saint Augustine

Personal Subject

Bryant, Farris, 1914-2002
King Jr., Dr. Martin Luther, 1929-1968
Stoner, Jesse Benjamin, 1924-2005

Subject

African American history
Civil rights
Civil rights movement
Demonstrations
Discrimination
Integration
Governors--Florida
Race riots
Segregation