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Ax Handle Saturday
Part of Civil Rights Movement
DateAugust 27, 1960; 63 years ago (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, 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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