Three veterans of the civil rights movement fought segregation in St. Augustine, Fla., enduring violence and racism in America’s oldest city.
Half a mile away, Janie Young Price, 96, has no trouble summoning the outrage she felt when she emerged from her hospital shift and found her Buick Electra turned upside down. She can still hear the hate at the Howard Johnson restaurant when a nearby White woman held her nose and said, “Ew, it stinks in here! Somebody must have left the sewer open.
The upheaval in St. Augustine that spring and early summer is one of the great under-told stories of American civil rights. It was a showdown of King and the Klan, as the filibuster of the Civil Rights Act played out in Congress. King was targeted with death threats, his rented home strafed with bullets. On a nightly basis, the prospect of extreme racial violence hovered like the Florida humidity, making it hard to breathe.
“The movement did something to me that I don’t tell to the average person,” Tyson reflected earlier this month. “Because I trusted everybody. They broke a trust. It did something to me physically, mentally, and spiritually. … It hurt very deep. Even now, when I talk about it, I get all emotional. I’m 99; I guess I’ll just die with it.”Price and Vickers are St. Augustine natives who can conjure the city as it was almost a century ago.
The World War II economy gave her that opportunity. After graduating from Excelsior High School in 1942, she talked her way into a job as a tack welder in the New York shipyards. Her evening art classes at Excelsior helped her land additional employment in the garment district, making pocketbooks and jewelry. Later, moving as far from Florida as the continental United States would allow, she worked in Seattle for Boeing. Against her better instincts, she was lured back to St.
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