If It Takes All Summer
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1964 civil rights
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bi-racial committee
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Civil rights movement
Dan R. Warren
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Florida
Florida history
historical memoir
Ku Klux Klan
legal mediation
Martin Luther King Jr.
moral courage
racial justice
segregation
Southern politics
St. Augustine
states' rights
Product details
- ISBN 9780817358426
- Weight: 525g
- Dimensions: 152 x 229mm
- Publication Date: 15 Jun 2015
- Publisher: The University of Alabama Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
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This memoir recounts the struggle against segregation in St. Augustine, Florida, in the early and mid-1960s. In the summer of 1964 the nation’s oldest city became the center of the civil rights movement as Martin Luther King Jr., encouraged by President Johnson, a southerner, who made the civil rights bill the center piece of his domestic policy, chose this tourism-driven community as an ideal location to demonstrate the injustice of discrimination and the complicity of southern leaders in its enforcement. St. Augustine was planning an elaborate celebration of its founding, and expected generous federal and state support. But when the kick-off dinner was announced only whites were invited, and local black leaders protested. The affair alerted the national civil rights leadership to the St. Augustine situation as well as fueling local black resentment. Ferment in the city grew, convincing King to bring his influence to the leadership of the local struggle. As King and his allies fought for the right to demonstrate, a locally powerful Ku Klux Klan counter-demonstrated. Conflict ensued between civil rights activists, local and from out-of-town, and segregationists, also home-grown and imported. The escalating violence of the Klan led Florida’s Governor to appoint State Attorney Dan Warren as his personal representative in St. Augustine. Warren’s crack down on the Klan and his innovative use of the Grand Jury to appoint a bi-racial committee against the intransigence of the Mayor and other officials, is a fascinating story of moral courage. This is an insider view of a sympathetic middleman in the difficult position of attempting to bring reason and dialog into a volatile situation.
Dan Warren (1925-2011) was a combat veteran of World War II. He was the elected State Attorney for Florida’s Seventh Judicial Circuit and a past president of the Florida Prosecuting Attorney’s Association; a former Daytona Beach City commissioner, city judge and Justice of the Peace, he was an original member of the Daytona Beach Speedway Authority created to build Daytona International Speedway serving 46 years as a member. Morris Dees, co-founder of the Southern Poverty Law Center, is currently its Chief Trial Counsel.
