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The Rachel Maddow Show

but they went after him, too. and with images like this coming out of jacksonville, you can see why this explosion of racist violence on august 27th in 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. "florida times union." they didn't cover the sit-ins at the downtown lunch counters at all and when it came to the 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,

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The Rachel Maddow Show

deceleration and pressure changes and everything else. alton yates was not the only airman who went through this but he was one of them and he participated in a huge number, in 65 of those tests of the human body in the extremes. and he is fine. he lived to tell the tale and proudly. he was discharged in 1959 after that very honorable service. after he was discharged in 1959 he headed home. to jacksonville, florida. around this time he was getting out of the air force after this amazing service, late 1959 early 1960, obviously there was tremendous organizing happening throughout the american south at that time for the civil rights movement. for that young man who had been serving his country, he was 23, 24 years old at the time. there was a lot in the air. in february, 1960, students in

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The Rachel Maddow Show

>> absolutely. this is why we need the manifesto. when we consume stories of this violence as a lone wolf, quote-unquote, we are consuming them as if they exist without connection to each other or ideological basis. this is how we get stories about jacksonville as something separate from christ church and pittsburgh and buffalo and charleston. many of these attacks have not only a shared characteristics in the communities that are impacted but they are all carried out by white power perpetrators who are united through social ties, united ideologically, they share information about weapons and tactics and strategies and they are all working for the same purpose which by the way is not limited only to mass attacks as a strategy but also exists in this outline you just gave where it is running into our national

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The Rachel Maddow Show

they, too, would start segregated lunch counter sit-ins. they would have young black people sit down at the whites only lunch counters in segregated downtown jacksonville, florida. first one was august 13th. they were berated and attacked. the lunch counters were actually closed down in the middle of the day rather than serve those young people. the lights were turned off. the kids nevertheless decided that they would keep doing it and they would expand it to include all the segregated lunch counters in downtown jacksonville. that first peaceful nonviolent sit-in had been on august 13th. by august 16th, they had not just resistance and attacks in the moment they had organized resistance. the white citizens council in jacksonville convened a meeting august 16th in which they pledged they were going to stop these kids, stop these young people from what they were doing at all costs. by august 24th, not yet two

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The Rachel Maddow Show

of the gun. these are a clear reference to the christ church shooting, reminiscent of what we saw in that attack. but without the manifesto we are work wg a lot less information. i tend to think we might easily release the manifestos to experts who can analyze them and decode without circulating them publicly and get sort of the best of both options. >> the jacksonville sheriff has said publicly that he doesn't think the shooter was part of a larger group. that he acted alone. as you mentioned obviously there is a lot we still don't know here. i wanted to ask you about this sort of lone wolf idea because you've written a lot about this and i feel like your take on this is important for people to absorb at a popular level. >> sure. >> if the shooter did espouse white supremacist beliefs can you explain why it might be dangerous or even wrong to dismiss that as a lone wolf event based on the fact that he acted a is a single person when he went out shooting?

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The Rachel Maddow Show

woburn, massachusetts to menace and intimidate immigrant families living there. we are a week out from a man with a history of far right postings on social media shooting and killing a woman in san bernadino, california because she flew a pride flag outside her store. this follows neo-nazi cds randomly being mailed to people all over montana and other neo-nazi groups demonstrating at the state capitol in augusta, maine. in jacksonville, itself, they have been plagued over the past year by neo-nazi groups using laser projectors to project swastikas and other nazi imagery in quotes on to downtown buildings on the jacksonville skyline and on to the jacksonville stadium. we're still today watching the unfurling stream of bomb threats to oklahoma elementary schools after the far right education commissioner in oklahoma decided he would amplify extreme right

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The Rachel Maddow Show

martin luther king. but as that 60th anniversary of the march on washington was celebrated this weekend and today in washington, in jacksonville this weekend they were also marking the anniversary of ax handle saturday. both of those anniversaries coincided with today's news with a young white man with swastikas etched on his ar-15 heading into a black neighborhood dollar store in jacksonville, florida and opening fire. at least according to one local official the young man told white people they should leave the store that he was about to shoot up. and then he kept shooting specifically at black people. he killed two young african american men and an african american woman before police say he then shot himself. local authorities announced just tonight that they are finishing up going through the various racist manifestos that he left

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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

greensboro, north carolina, had started this new tactic sitting in at segregated lunch counters. that tactic moved from greensboro, north carolina and soon spread all over the south. by august, 1960 it had spread to jacksonville, florida, the home of alton yates. a local naacp in 1960 had a youth council. the president of the youth council was all of 16 years old. he was a high school student named rodney hearst. the vice president of the naacp council in jacksonville was this recently discharged hero airman, alton yates. and under their leadership, this high school kid and this recently discharged hero, usairman, the naacp youth council in jacksonville, florida decided in 1960, august, 1960, august 13th to be specific, that

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The Rachel Maddow Show

so what should we know? what can we know about what happens in the far right politics when it appears to be in nexus with far, far right violence that right now is just pinging off the charts? joining us now is one of the nation's leading researchers on far right extremism and white power movements, associate professor at northwest university and author of "bring the war home the white power movement and paramilitary america." professor, i really appreciate you making time to be here with us tonight. thank you so much. >> thanks for having me. >> so one of the reasons i want to talk to you tonight is because of the jacksonville authorities, jacksonville sheriff saying tonight that they're pretty sure they're going to release the racist manifestos from this shooter in jacksonville this weekend. they say they want to do that in the interest of transparency. somebody who studied these

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