The University of North Florida’s Center for Urban Education and Policy and The Eastside Brotherhood collaborated with The Jacksonville Cultural Council Public Art Week to paint a mural inspired by a dark, historical moment in Jacksonville known as the “Ax Handle Saturday” which was shared during your visit to James Weldon Johnson Park. This mural is titled 'Hope and History.' UNF and students from different Jacksonville high schools completed this interpretation of Ax Handle Saturday on the walls of The Eastside Brotherhood in 2018.
On August 27, 1960, the Youth Council of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People were doing a peaceful protest by sitting at a whites-only lunch counter in downtown Jacksonville when they were attacked and spit on. Ultimately, several segregationists beat them with ax handles and baseball bats.
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