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"A Picture is Worth A Thousand Words"

Robert Brock. Fashion by black creators
Black-owned Fashion. Kith. Paper planes. Rocnation

Monson Motor Lodge swimming pool on June 18, 1964. The photo was connected to the St. Augustine movement, named for the town in Florida where it took place.

 

James Brock, the manager of the motel, was photographed pouring muriatic acid into the pool to get the protesters out.
 

Coming back from a 1956 trip, photographing South Carolina's segregated beaches for Jet Magazine, Cecil J. Williams stops at a filing station, closed at the time, and drinks from a "WHITE ONLY" water fountain.

 

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