St. Augustine

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  8/27/2022
  

  Black Women Veterans of Movement to Desegregate St. Augustine will Never Forget what they Endured

  The 1964 campaign against Jim Crown in St. Augustine, waged as the Civil Rights Act was being filibustered in the Senate, remains an understudied battle in the movement. Many surviving women activists are keepers of knowledge about this phase of the freedom struggle. 

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• SOURCE: Boston Globe
  7/26/2020
  

  Attacked at a 1964 Civil Rights Protest, Mimi Jones, Who Died at 73, was the Subject of an Iconic Photo

  “All of a sudden, the water in front of my face started to bubble up like a volcanic eruption,” she told WGBH. “I could barely breathe. It was entering my nose and my eyes.”

• SOURCE: WaPo
  3-27-13
  

  Professor digitizing centuries-old records that reveal tales of Florida’s first residents

  ST. AUGUSTINE, Fla. — Inside a Catholic convent deep in St. Augustine’s historic district, stacks of centuries-old, sepia-toned papers offer clues to what life was like for early residents of the nation’s oldest permanently occupied city.These parish documents date back to 1594, and they record the births, deaths, marriages and baptisms of the people who lived in St. Augustine from that time through the mid-1700s. They’re the earliest written documents from any region of the United States, according to J. Michael Francis, a history professor at the University of South Florida St. Petersburg.Francis and some of his graduate students in the Florida Studies department have spent the past several months digitizing the more than 6,000 fragile pages to ensure the contents last beyond the paper’s deterioration.