Ax Handle Saturday
1960 race riot in Jacksonville, Florida / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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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.
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Date | August 27, 1960; 63 years ago (August 27, 1960) | ||
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