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Two men and a woman were killed in a racially-motivated shooting in Jacksonville, Florida on Saturday. The gunman, a white male in his twenties, “hated Black people”, Jacksonville Sheriff T.K ...
Ax Handle Saturday, also known as the Jacksonville riot of 1960, was a racially motivated attack in Hemming Park (since renamed James Weldon Johnson Park) in Jacksonville, Florida, on August 27, 1960. A group of about 200 white men used baseball bats and ax handles to attack black people who were in sit-in protests opposing racial segregation.
James Edward "Pop" Pough (1948 – June 18, 1990) was an American spree killer who killed thirteen people in two separate attacks in Jacksonville, Florida on 17 and 18 June 1990. Pough shot and killed two people at random on Jacksonville's Northside , wounded two teenagers, and robbed a convenience store .
Photo Opportunities Jacksonville Lee Van Grack Jacksonville, Fla., ranking number one in land area in the contiguous United States, is a wonderful place to be – especially if you're a photographer.
Papachristou v. Jacksonville, 405 U.S. 156 (1972), was a United States Supreme Court case resulting in a Jacksonville vagrancy ordinance being declared unconstitutionally vague. The case was argued on December 8, 1971, and decided on February 24, 1972. The respondent was the city of Jacksonville, Florida.
Jacksonville, FL: December 13, 1969 * St. Thomas (FL) Sunshine Classic championship: W 130–65 4–0 – 30 – Gilmore – Jacksonville Memorial Coliseum Jacksonville, FL: December 18, 1969 * No. 18 : Georgetown: W 41–26 5–0 – – – Jacksonville Memorial Coliseum Jacksonville, FL: December 22, 1969 * No. 18 : Harvard: W 103–64 6–0 ...
The Alexander Brest Museum and Gallery is located in the Phillips Fine Arts Building on the campus of Jacksonville University.It was named for its primary benefactor. The museum featured collections of carved ivory, Pre-Columbian artifacts, Steuben glass, Chinese porcelain, Cloisonné, Tiffany glass, and Boehm porcelain [1] as well as rotating exhibitions.
It was the first Jacksonville city park to include a playground. [1] From opening until the Civil rights movement the park was open to whites only. In 1914, Jacksonville hosted the annual reunion of the United Confederate Veterans, with estimated attendance of about 8,000 former Confederate soldiers.