Former Congresswoman Val Demings

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Former Congresswoman Val Demings @RepValDemings

The following day, the Civil Rights Act was approved. J.T. Johnson, one of the swimmers in the pool that day, later said "I'm not so sure the Civil Rights Act would have been passed had [there] not been a St. Augustine. It was a milestone." https://t.co/N6MP5ZM71K — PolitiTweet.org

Posted Feb. 8, 2021

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Former Congresswoman Val Demings @RepValDemings

The movement was the only time and place where Dr. King was arrested in Florida. 16 Jewish rabbis were also jailed (the largest mass arrest of rabbis in American history). Brave protesters jumped into a "Whites only" pool and had acid dumped on them (pictured: Mimi Ford). https://t.co/28XLr8FZY7 — PolitiTweet.org

Posted Feb. 8, 2021

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Former Congresswoman Val Demings @RepValDemings

They strategically brought other photo-friendly allies, including Mary Parkman Peabody, a 72-year-old white woman and mother of the Governor of Massachusetts. Her arrest, like the pool photos, spurred the national press to cast the movement's struggles in a different light. https://t.co/J80TjVIAZP — PolitiTweet.org

Posted Feb. 8, 2021