It was never about a hot dog and a Coke! : a personal account of the 1960 sit-in demonstrations in Jacksonville, Florida and Ax Handle Saturday

Resource Information

The work It was never about a hot dog and a Coke! : a personal account of the 1960 sit-in demonstrations in Jacksonville, Florida and Ax Handle Saturday represents a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in Jacksonville Public Library. This resource is a combination of several types including: Work, Language Material, Books.

Label

It was never about a hot dog and a Coke! : a personal account of the 1960 sit-in demonstrations in Jacksonville, Florida and Ax Handle Saturday

Title remainder

a personal account of the 1960 sit-in demonstrations in Jacksonville, Florida and Ax Handle Saturday

Statement of responsibility

Rodney L. Hurst Sr

Creator

• Hurst, Rodney L

Subject

• Civil rights demonstrations -- Florida | Jacksonville
• Jacksonville (Fla.) -- Authors
• African Americans -- Civil rights | History -- 20th century
• Jacksonville (Fla.) -- Race relations
• Local author
• Jacksonville (Fla.) -- History -- 20th century

Language

eng

Summary

"On August 27, 1960, more than 200 whites with ax handles and baseball bats attacked members of the Jacksonville Youth Council NAACP in downtown Jacksonville who were sitting in at white lunch counters protesting racism and segregation. Referred to as Ax Handle Saturday, [this book] chronicles the racial and political climate of Jacksonville, Florida in the late fifties, the events leading up to that infamous day, and the aftermath."--from jacket

Cataloging source

JPL

Dewey number

• 323.1196073
• 975.912/063

Illustrations

• illustrations
• portraits

Index

index present

Literary form

non fiction