1 janv. 1964 - MLK gets arrested For Trying To Go To a Restaurant

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Martin Luther king and 17 others were arrested for trying to eat in a restaurant. The original paper from 1964 from the New York Times says, “ST. AUGUSTINE, Fla., June 11—The Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. was jailed today after he attempted to eat in one of St. Augustine's finer restaurants overlooking Matanzas Bay.
While Dr. King and 17 companions were held on charges of violating Florida's unwanted guest law, other civil rights demonstrators made another night march through crowds of jeering whites.” Black people marched through crowds of jeering white people who were yelling and shouting at them. “if they can match, why can’t we?” they would yell. There were so many police officers that the white people didn’t dare try to assault the black people as they had done before, but when the black people tried to meet at a church in the black neighborhood, crowds of white people broke through the line of police officers and were running towards the church when about 50 officers shut them down. The city had taken multiple steps to try to reduce the violence, but at night it was a scene of an outpouring of racial hatred and violence.

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