Monson Motor Lodge
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The Monson Motor Lodge was a hotel located at 32 Avenida Menendez, Saint Augustine, Florida. The site was originally the site of a boarding house as early as the 1880s, and was later the site of the M
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1880s image
rebuilt after 1914 fire
A civil rights protest occurred on June 18, 1964, at the Monson Motor Lodge in St. Augustine, Florida. The campaign between June and July 1964 was led by Robert Hayling, Martin Luther King Jr., Ralph
Monson Motor Lodge
…as early as the 1880s, and was later the site of the Monson Hotel before the final Monson Motor Lodge was constructed in 1961. It was the site of the 1964 Monson Motor Lodge Protests, a series of landmark Civil Rights protests. The Monson Motor Lodge was demolished in 2003 and a Hilton Hotel was built on the site. Today, historical…
James Brock pouring acid into his pool
A segregationist being arrested, June 1964; their bail bond was usually a fraction of their opponents'.
Ku Klux Klan rally in St. Augustine, July 23, 1964: Note Charles Conley Lynch in the Confederate flag vest, holding microphone.
State Governor Farris Bryant, who ordained state rather than city law during the civil rights campaign