Ax Handle Saturday

Ax Handle Saturday
Part of Civil Rights Movement
DateAugust 27, 1960 (August 27, 1960)
Location
Hemming Park
Jacksonville, Florida
Parties
White rioters
Black protesters

Ax Handle Saturday, also known as the Jacksonville riot of 1960, was a racially motivated attack in Hemming Park (since renamed James Weldon Johnson Park) in Jacksonville, Florida, United States, on August 27, 1960. A group of about 200 white men used baseball bats and ax handles to attack black people who were in sit-in protests opposing racial segregation.

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