In the history of the U.S. Civil Rights movement, names like Little Rock, Birmingham, and Montgomery stand out most in memory. But it was in the country´s oldest city the events of 1963 and especially 1964 provided the final shock needed to pass the Civil Rights Act in a balky, filibustering Congress. One of those events was a 1963 sit-it at the lunch counter of the local Woolworth department store.like the more famous one three years earlier at the Woolworth in Greensboro, North Caroliana. Now preserved in the lobby of the Wells Fargo Bank which currently occupies the site, it´s part of this city´s Freedom Trail which visitors can explore through free black heritage tours.

Read more in my post St. Augustine, Florida - Critical in the USA´s Black History, Too.


David Paul Appell