Civil rights leader remembers ‘Ax Handle Saturday’ 60 years later | Yahoo News by Marquise Francis
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On Thursday, President Trump officially accepts the Republican presidential nomination on the final night of the Republican National Convention from the White House lawn. The previously announced venue choice, Jacksonville, Fla., was problematic, particularly among Black Americans. Aug. 27 is also the 60th anniversary of a notorious episode in the city: the bloody race riot known as “Ax Handle Saturday.” Longtime Jacksonville native and local civil rights leader Rodney Hurst, who was among those attacked that day, said the prospect of Trump coming to town didn’t make “any difference.”
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