Description
Oral history with Michael Gannon, distinguished Florida historian. Gannon gives an in depth overview of the various groups that comprised St. Augustine and how each group felt about the civil rights movement in the city. Gannon discusses the role outsiders played during the Movement and the underlying factors that contributed to the violence during 1963-1964. Gannon discusses the roles various churches played in the Movement and the attitudes they held toward the Movement in general.
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Colburn, David R
Record Contributed By
Samuel Proctor Oral History ProgramRecord Harvested From
Digital Library of GeorgiaKeywords
- African American Civil Rights Workers
- African American Teenagers
- African Americans
- Ancient City Gun Club (Saint Augustine, Fla.)
- Ancient City Hunting Club (Saint Augustine, Fla.)
- Arrest
- Castillo De San Marcos (Saint Augustine, Fla.)
- Centennial Celebrations, Etc
- Civil Rights
- Civil Rights Demonstrations
- Civil Rights Movements
- Civil Rights Workers
- Collective Behavior
- Florida
- Florida Memorial College
- Government
- John Birch Society
- Ku Klux Klan (1915 )
- Municipal Government
- National Association For The Advancement Of Colored People
- Old Slave Market (Saint Augustine, Fla.)
- Police
- Race Relations
- Saint Augustine
- Saint Augustine (Fla.)
- Saint Johns County
- Slaver
- St. Augustine Historical Society
- St. Augustine Record
- St. Patrick's Church (Saint Augustine, Fla.)
- Trinity Episcopal Church (Saint Augustine, Fla.)
- United States
- United States Commission On Civil Rights. Florida Advisory Committee
- United States. Civil Rights Act Of 1964
- Violence
- Wfoy (Radio Station : Saint Augustine, Fla.)