Three veterans of the civil rights movement fought segregation in St. Augustine, Fla., enduring violence and racism in America’s oldest city — The Washington Post Phelan M. Ebenhack/For The Washington Post Cora Tyson, 99, stands in front of her home in St. Augustine, Fla., on July 15. The plaque commemorates the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.’s stay at her home while he pushed for the racial desegregation of dining and lodging amid Ku Klux Klan violence. Read more ...

60 years after 1963 Klan rally in St. Augustine, Fla., White pastor and Black activist speak — The Washington Post Harold Valentine/AP St. Augustine Police Chief Virgil Stuart, right, watches a group of sign-carrying African American demonstrators as they march in front of the old slave market in the center of the city, May 30, 1964, St. Augustine, Fla. Read more ...

Audrey Nell Edwards Hamilton with Martin Luther King III in 2011. She was arrested with the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. in St. Augustine, Fla., in June 1964. They were taken to the St. Johns County Jail, where she had already spent time after her arrest in 1963 for a lunch counter sit-in. (David Nolan) Audrey Nell Edwards was still a baby when Jackie Robinson broke Major League Baseball’s color line in 1947. In 1963, when the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. proclaimed that it was

From New Hampshire Gazette Third of four parts A story Marshall Bloom wrote for the Amherst Student newspaper.  Credit: AMHERST COLLEGE ARCHIVES AND SPECIAL COLLECTIONS   In early 1964, the spring of Marshall Bloom’s sophomore year at Amherst College, a new battleground for civil rights was taking shape in the nation’s oldest city, St. Augustine, Florida. A quaint community with plenty of Florida schlock, St. Augustine was settled by the Spanish in 1565, decades before Jamest

The untold story of a government plot, a maverick college president, and the most important figure of the civil rights era Their one and only meeting lasted barely a minute. On March 26, 1964, Martin Luther King and Malcolm X came to Washington to observe the beginning of the Senate debate on the Civil Rights Act. They shook hands. They smiled for the cameras. As they parted, Malcolm said jokingly, “Now you’re going to get investigated.” That, of course, was well underway. Re