OPINION: I was 42 when I learned that Dr. Arnett Elyus Girardeau Sr. stood between Black teenagers and a white ...

JACKSONVILLE, Fla. – At age 16, Marjorie Meeks Browns was among the youth protesters attacked during a peaceful lunch counter sit-in Aug. 27, 1960, in downtown Jacksonville. But Meeks Brown would go ...

JACKSONVILLE, Fla. – Sunday marked 63 years since Ax Handle Saturday unfolded in Jacksonville and a commemoration was held at Jessie Ball duPont Center on Adams Street. On August 27, 1960, a mob of ...

JACKSONVILLE, Fla. — A mob of white men wielding ax handles charges toward a crowd of Black people in Downtown Jacksonville. Then, the beatings begin. That's the scene depicted in a newly unearthed ...

The history of the Jacksonville riot of 1960, was a racially motivated attack. Ax Handle Saturday, also known as the Jacksonville riot of 1960, was a racially motivated attack that took place in ...

Wednesday marks 65 years since Ax Handle Saturday, a brutal racist attack on a peaceful lunch counter-protest in downtown Jacksonville. On August 27, 1960, the protest against segregation turned ...

JACKSONVILLE, Fla. — Thursday, Aug. 27, marked 60 years since Ax Handle Saturday. A day known as one of the darkest days in the history of Jacksonville. To commemorate the courage of those who put ...

Jacksonville, Fla. — It’s been 60 years since violence broke out in Downtown Jacksonville now known as “Ax Handle Saturday”. The unrest happened following civil rights protests, mostly sit-ins, by ...

JACKSONVILLE, Fla. -- August 27 marks the anniversary of one of the more horrendous events in Jacksonville's history. It was 56 years ago when the brutal attack that became known as "Ax Handle ...

The videos aren't long: Just two minutes and 21 seconds combined, but they quickly capture the tension and savagery of the day 61 years ago that became known as Ax Handle Saturday. Two Jacksonville ...

JACKSONVILLE, Fla — August 27th marks 60 years since “Ax Handle Saturday,” a brutal racist attack on a peaceful lunch counter-protest in downtown Jacksonville. One of the blacks attacked by the white ...