Zion Baptist Church
96 Evergreen Avenue
Zion Baptist Church hosted rallies to encourage support for
the civil rights movement in St. Augustine. A guest speaker here was the
Freedom Riders' famous attorney, William Kunstler.
Dr. Hayling's House
8 R.B. Hayling Place
Dr. Robert
B. Hayling has been called the "father" of St.
Augustine's civil rights movement. For his efforts to end segregation, he
was severely beaten by the KKK, and shots into his house killed his dog
and barely missed his wife.
Roberson Family's House (firebombed)
Gault Street
Bungum Roberson served as local treasurer of Dr. King's Southern
Christian Leadership Conference. After his sons braved the dangerous trek as
black students entering the all-white Fullerwood School, the family lost
their house to a firebomb; only the steps remain.
Loucille Plummer's House
177 Twine Street
Loucille Plummer hosted a special houseguest who first put St.
Augustine in the spotlight of national news. Her guest, Mary Parkman
Peabody, the 72-year-old mother of the Governor of Massachusetts, was
arrested for trying to be served in a racially integrated group at the
Ponce de Leon Motor Lodge. | 
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