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The Rachel Maddow Show

hundreds of white men running through the downtown chasing people down and beating them with ax handles, after that initial, frenzied attack, the rioting in jacksonville actually continued for two more nights. the "florida town union" the white paper of record did not see fit to mention it. it was just a hurricane of violence. in the end, the kids, the young people who organized those protests at the lunch counters, they won. they started those protests like i said in august, 1960. by the spring of 1961, jacksonville had quietly integrated its downtown lunch counters. and it took longer but the "florida times union" newspaper in recent years has tried to make up for the dismal role that it played in these events. it has in years since covered

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The Rachel Maddow Show

the informant said the klan's initial plan had been sort of theatrical. they planned to have a white woman pretend to have been attacked by young black men who were trying to desegregate the lunch counters. they said that the plan was to, the informant said the plan was to get this woman near to where the sit-in demonstration was happening and then she would collapse and say she had been attacked and that's why she collapsed. and they thought that would give the klansmen all the cover they'd need to open up the gates of hel in downtown jacksonville. in the end though that was their plan they decided they didn't need the pretext of the woman pretending to be attacked, the woman pretending to collapse. the klansmen stashed ax handles and baseball bats in the bushes at a downtown jacksonville park. they went and retrieved them from that park. they handed out more of them from a vehicle, some sort of van or truck, and then these klansmen, something like 200 of them, just mauraded into

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Anderson Cooper 360

even walk on the sidewalks, we're not safe in any stores. >> a federal hate crimes probe has already been launched. >> brian todd is with us now. brian, this shooting comes on the anniversary of another act of racial violence in jacksonville. what can you tell us about that? >> that's right, john. it came on the same weekend as the 63rd anniversary of an incident called ax handle saturday. that was an incident in 1960 where a group of more than 200 white rioters wielding ax handles and baseball backs beat a group of black protesters. it came the same weekend, as you mentioned, when everybody on the country commemorated the 60th anniversary of the march on washington. and it came five years to the day after another mass shooting in downtown jacksonville. that one was not race related, but this was a shooting of the jacksonville landing in a metal video game tournament where ten people were -- all the symbolism, john, all the anniversary surrounding this event, just leading to greater frustration and heartbreak for everyone in this community. >> a lot of history surrounding

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The Rachel Maddow Show

they said that the plan was to, the informant said the plan wasm to get this woman near to where the sit-in demonstration was em happening and then she would collapse and say she had been attacked and that's why she collapsed. and they thought that would give the klansmen all the cover they'd need to open up the gates of hell in downtown jacksonville.le in the end though that was their plan they decided they didn't de need the pretext of the woman re pretending to be attacked, the woman pretending to collapse. the klansmen stashed ax handles and baseball bats in the bushes at a downtown jacksonville park. they went and retrieved them from that park. they handed out more of them from a vehicle, some sort of van or truck, and then these klansmen, something like 200 of them, just mauraded into downtown jacksonville and ostensibly were targeting the young people, the naacp youth council that had been carrying out the nonviolent civil disobedience at the lunch counters. but turns out the klan couldn't

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The Rachel Maddow Show

jacksonville, florida, 1960, you can see why it got national news. it ended up, this photo, in "life" magazine and also ended up on the front page of the "new york times." "violence flares in jacksonville." 50 injured as white gangs clash with negros. in "life" magazine, on the front page of the "new york times." you know where it didn't end up on the front page was the main white newspaper in jacksonville, florida.pa "florida times union." they didn't cover the sit-ins at the downtown lunch counters at all, and when it came to the he white race riot on august 27th they buried coverage of that on page 15 of 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 ax handles, after that initial, frenzied attack, the rioting in jacksonville actually

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The ReidOut

there, saying black history had no inherent value, banning dei, attacking black history, saying black people benefitted from slavery. i could go on. do you understand why he got those boos when he showed up in the black community? >> well, i do. and i dare say he may have expected to have that reception. but i will say that i am personally glad that he was there, because i think it's important that he come face-to-face with that pain. there was a lot of grief, and is a lot of grief in that community, and he needs to see that. and as i said, you know, i'm sure edward waters university is grateful to have the money for security, but we have to go so far beyond that. you know, we're were celebrating the anniversary of ax handle saturday on the sunday we were there for that vigil. and it just feels like these days we're moving backwards. it feels as if we're just using different ax handles, joy. and we have got to acknowledge that. and i think the governor being

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Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - MSNBC - 20170416:20:19:00

showed up the two sides clashing in a public park. starting with shouting matches, then hurling objects across a barrier and finally turning into an out of control mob of physical assaults. police in riot gear arrested 21 people, 11 more were injured. several bloodied and beaten and sent to the hospital for treatment. knives, pepper spray, fireworks, stun guns, ax handles and canned filled with cement were confiscated during the incident. police continue to investigate saying they're actively pursuing more arrests associated with this rally. they are collecting any and all surveillance video and also social media accounts with video to see if they can identify those who broke the law yesterday and hold them accountable. emotions ran high on both sides. here's what demonstrates had to say. >> you know, these people don't belong in berkeley. they're just coming in to start something. >> this is cowards that want to wear masks and sucker punch people for what reason? they're just full of rage.

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Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - MSNBC - 20120903:21:22:00

block doors. they use ax handles. the discipline marches. the mothers in the marches are due all the credit. >> thank you. reverend jesse jackson. mayor anthony fox, mayor anthony fox. >> yes, sir, welcome to charlotte. >> you want to say a word of welcome and then we'll get back to this other stuff. >> i want to welcome you to charlotte. glad to have you. we're going to have a great week. >> we have never had a welcome like this. ever. this is better than new york even. any way, let me ask you about the voter turnout. are you concerned this state is really one of the closest? within the margin of error. >> it's going to be close in north carolina and the efforts that the republican legislature have taken to try to take the vote away through voter i.d. laws, through shortening the

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