19631963–1964; King arrested 11 June 1964 · St. Augustine, Florida

St. Augustine civil rights movement

The former Excelsior High School in Lincolnville, now the Lincolnville Museum, with an MLK memorial stone in front — Photo: w_lemay. CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons

From 1963 the dentist Robert Hayling led protests against segregation in St. Augustine, and Klansmen fired into homes in Lincolnville. In 1964 Martin Luther King Jr. joined the campaign and was arrested at the Monson Motor Lodge on 11 June; a week later the motel's manager poured what he said was acid into its pool during a swim-in. The campaign helped push the Civil Rights Act through Congress.

Sites

Site 1: Plaza de la Constitución and the Foot Soldiers MonumentBronze monument to local marchers in the old Spanish plaza.Map ↗
Site 2: Site of the Monson Motor Lodge, Avenida MenendezBayfront site of the motel where King was arrested and the pool protest took place.Map ↗
Site 3: Lincolnville Museum and Cultural CenterMuseum in a former Black school in the neighbourhood at the heart of the movement.Map ↗

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