Text transcribed from caption: PC-31141 NEGROES IN ‘MASSIVE ASSAULT’ ON BIAS ST. AUGUSTINE, Fla.-More racial demonstrations were in store for St. Augustine as Negro integration leaders held a press conference to announce the “beginning of a massive assault on segregation” in the city--scene of violence between whites and Negroes. Clergy leaders of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference are seated at table during the press interview, with pickets carrying signs standing the background. Left to right are Dr. R. B. Hayling, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., and Dr. Ralph Abernathy. Credit Must Read: RELIGIOUS NEWS SERVICE PHOTO (W-6B-64-NAB)

Wide World Photos, Inc. (publisher)

1964
June 10, 1964

still image

photographs

photograph : black-and-white ; 5 1/2 x 9 inches

Religious News Service--Archives.
Abernathy, Ralph, 1926-1990.
King, Martin Luther, Jr., 1929-1968.
Hayling, Robert Bagner.
Southern Christian Leadership Conference.

Civil rights demonstrations--Florida--Saint Augustine.
Civil rights movements--United States.
Civil rights workers--Florida--Saint Augustine.
Segregation--Florida--Saint Augustine.
Press conferences--Florida--Saint Augustine.

Florida
Saint Augustine.
United States.
Saint Augustine (Fla.)

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