If It Takes All Summer: Martin Luther King, the KKK, and States' Rights in St. Augustine, 1964.

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If It Takes All Summer--Martin Luther King, the KKK, and States' Rights in St. Augustine, 1964

By Dan R. Warren

If It Takes All Summer recounts the struggle against segregation in St. Augustine, Florida, during the 1960s. In the summer of 1964, the nation's oldest city became the center of the civil rights movement as Martin Luther King Jr., encouraged by President Johnson's support, chose this tourism-driven community as an ideal location to demonstrate the injustice of discrimination and the complicity of southern leaders in its enforcement.

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