and when it came to the race riot on august 27th, they buried coverage of that on page 15 at the paper. which is all the more amazing when you consider that after the initial frenzied attack, hundreds of white men running through the downtown, chasing people down and beating them with axe handles. after that initial frenzied attack, the writing in jacksonville actually continued for two more nights. the florida times union, the paper, the wreck paper, they did not seem to mention. it was just a hurricane of violence. in the end, the kids, the young people organized the protests over the lunch counters. they won. they started those protests, like i said august 1960. by the spring of 1961, jacksonville had quietly integrated its downtown lunch counters. and, it took longer, but the

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