A house in St. Augustine that was firebombed and shot at during a key time in the civil rights movement is now moving to a new location.
Local NewsThe house is where civil rights leader Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. was scheduled to stay as part of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference in May 1964 until it was vandalized by segregationists.– That is until it was vandalized by segregationists.
Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. points at a bullet hole in a St. Johns County home in 1964. to relocate the historic beach cottage from 5480 Atlantic View to Collier-Blocker-Puryear Park on North Holmes Boulevard in St. Augustine.The county said the St. Johns County Parks Foundation secured state funds to relocate the historic house and the commissioners chose Collier-Blocker-Puryear Park in West Augustine, which is -- fittingly -- on West King Street as the new home for the building.
In 1947, Black residents weren’t allowed on St. Johns County beaches. So Frank Butler created his own
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