A Run-In With the Klan

James S. Jackson

St. Augustine, Fla., civil rights activist James Jackson discusses the creation of a local NAACP Youth Council, involvement in protests and his personal account of a confrontation with the Ku Klux Klan. "We in turn were taken out of the car at gunpoint taken in the midst of the meeting. Well, they, in turn, proceeded to separate us and to beat, you know, to jump on each and every one of us."

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