It was never about a hot dog and a Coke
This video is a preview of It was never about a hot dog and a Coke, released in January, 2008, and subtitled “A Personal Account of the 1960 Sit-in Demonstrations in Jacksonville, Florida and Ax Handle Saturday”. Those demonstrations culminated in the now infamous “Ax Handle Saturday” when 200 white males with ax handles and baseball bats, attacked 35 members of the Jacksonville Youth Council NAACP, in downtown Jacksonville.
About Rodney
When eleven-year old Rodney Hurst accepted his American History teacher's invitation to join the Jacksonville Youth Council NAACP, he could not have guessed at the enormous impact it would have on his life, Jacksonville history or the Civil Rights Movement....