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|  | | It was never about a hot dog and a Coke-hard cover
“It was never about a hot dog and a Coke®”, is subtitled “A Personal Account of the 1960 Sit-in Demonstrations in Jacksonville, Florida and Ax Handle Saturday”, and recounts the events leading up to and the fallout from the bloody events of August 27, 1960. The author is Rodney L. Hurst, Sr., who was the President of the Jacksonville Youth Council NAACP at the time.
On that day, 200 ax handle wielding whites attacked members of the Jacksonville Youth Council NAACP, staging sit-in demonstrations at white lunch counters in downtown Jacksonville. Aptly named Ax Handle Saturday by the media, the event gained national attention, and thrust Hurst and the Youth Council NAACP into the spotlight of the Civil Rights era.
Part memoir, part history and part biography, Hurst writes with clarity and an historical eye as he provides a chronicle and an in-depth look at the times, the mood, and the people of Jacksonville in a time of high tension and change.
| |  | | It was never about a hot dog and a Coke-soft cover
“It was never about a hot dog and a Coke®”, is subtitled “A Personal Account of the 1960 Sit-in Demonstrations in Jacksonville, Florida and Ax Handle Saturday”, and recounts the events leading up to and the fallout from the bloody events of August 27, 1960. The author is Rodney L. Hurst, Sr., who was the President of the Jacksonville Youth Council NAACP at the time.
On that day, 200 ax handle wielding whites attacked members of the Jacksonville Youth Council NAACP, staging sit-in demonstrations at white lunch counters in downtown Jacksonville. Aptly named Ax Handle Saturday by the media, the event gained national attention, and thrust Hurst and the Youth Council NAACP into the spotlight of the Civil Rights era.
Part memoir, part history and part biography, Hurst writes with clarity and an historical eye as he provides a chronicle and an in-depth look at the times, the mood, and the people of Jacksonville in a time of high tension and change.
| |  | | Unless WE Tell It...It Never Gets Told!
Real Stories about the Legacy of Jacksonville Florida Black History and Civil Rights History. And a look at Confronting Racism.
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