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March for Our Lives, student-led gun control advocacy group, planned nationwide march to end gun violence in Washington, D.C., and across the country

A March for Our Lives rally will take place in St. Augustine on Saturday at the Castillo de San Marcos National Monument lawn.

Festiv festival, not far from where i am now. which brings us to the georgia aquarium. andrew young and j.t. johnson himself suited up for a dip. for young who was at the forefront of the st. augustine march, and produced the documentary, it was one more splash in a historic journey. >> the symbolism of it, j.t. johnson was actually the one that jumped in the water in 1964, and it created a big hullabaloo, and for us to be able to invite the mayor of st. augustine up here to swim in this special pool with us, it shows how far we've come. >> i also want you to hear from the sitting -- or make t...

So, you think you know your history. i bet you can't tell me why a former mayor of atlanta, the current mayor of st. augustine, florida, and a veteran of the civil rights movement went for a swim today with sharks at the georgia aquarium. okay, i'll tell you. back in 1964, st. augustine, florida, america's oldest city, was one of its most racially divided. cruelly so. for some reason, it never gets mentioned in the same breath as selma or birmingham, but it should. blacks were barred from so-called white beaches, and once when a young black man named j.t. johnson dared to jump into a motel swi...

Movies of the acid being poured into the pool, while visitors to st. augustine were in there, african-american visitors, and that was embarrassing enough to the southern senators, i understand, that it broke the filibuster that allowed the civil rights act of '64 to get signed. so, it's kind of symbolic that we were swimming together in this pool. >> the film is "crossing in st. augustine." by the way, what joe bowles wle talking about, across the street corner president johnson signed the civil rights act into law. imagine being denied access to a loved one on their sick bed or maybe even t...