“I know my mom is happy that I’m here,” Jones said. “I was a little angry earlier because thinking about what she had to go through. Why she had to go through it because of the color of her skin.”
St. Augustine is best known as the nation's oldest city -- but in 1964 -- Martin Luther King Junior called it the most lawless city he had seen.
“They beat us up pretty bad down there. We had never been in a situation like that,” Johnson said. “And that didn’t get us out of the pool.”Johnson, knowing that the acid was used as a pool cleaner, remembers calming the group.“I wanted to assure them that they were going to be alright. And they started to relax a little,” Johnson said, adding that eventually, two or three sheriffs jumped in and dragged the protesters out.
“This development is merely the first step in a long journey toward freedom and justice in St. Augustine,” King said at the time.But the turning point played by the St. Augustine swim-in protesters in the civil rights movement almost didn’t happen -- because many of the demonstrators couldn’t swim. At the time, the only pool open to Black Americans in St. Augustine was at HBCU Florida Memorial College.
Children’s show host Fred Rogers shares a wading pool with Officer Clemmons in an episode of Mr. Rogers’ Neighborhood to emphasize the importance of desegregation.
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