The former St. Augustine Beach Hotel has been added to the National Register of Historic Places for its importance in the national civil rights movement of the 1960s.
In the Spring of 1964, St Augustine would be the final stage of what was called "The Great Moral Drama" leading to the passage of the Civil Rights Act of 1964. Historic City News remembers the impact of Martin Luther King, Jr. on the Civil Rights movement in St. Augustine, aided by this compilation from…