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New Story: Schools Named for Confederates and the Demise of Manhattan Beach
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The Horrid Little History of the National Association for the Advancement of White People in Jax
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This Week’s Story: Tip Top Tavern / Randall’s Ranch House Restaurant
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Click below for the fourth story in a series of seven about the KKK in Jacksonville. On June 13th, come to Coniferous Cafe in downtown Jax at 7 pm, to hear Tim Gilmore’s talk “The Klan in Jax: Its Repugnant Rise and Hysterical Collapse.
For most of his life, he’d not realized the full traumatic effect of the Klan’s bombing of his childhood home as retaliation for his being the first black child to attend Lackawanna Elementary School.
When the Klan bombed a six year old’s home
Click below for the second story in a series of seven about the KKK in Jacksonville. On June 13th, come to Coniferous Cafe in downtown Jax at 7 pm, to hear Tim Gilmore’s talk “The Klan in Jax: Its Repugnant Rise and Hysterical Collapse.
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Tagged Burton H. Griffin, Donal Godfrey, Donald Eugene Spegal, J.B. Stoner, Jacky D. Harden, James Earl Ray, KKK, Klan bombing, Ku Klux Klan, Lackawanna Elementary, Martin Luther King, NAACP, Robert Pittman Gentry, Stetson Kennedy, The Klan Unmasked, William Rosecrans, Willie Eugene Wilson