The Civil Rights Movement in Jacksonville

Interviewee

• Bill Dudley, Florida Humanities Council
• Iona Godfrey King
• Abel Bartley
• Rodney Hearst

Files

Publication Date

11-2004

Abstract

The story of Jacksonville's civil rights struggles of the 1950s and 1960s as told by Bill Dudley; Clemson University historian Abel Bartley; Iona Godfrey King, a Black resident of Jacksonville in the 1950s; and Rodney Hearst, president of the NAACP Youth Council in the early 1960s.

Keywords

African Americans, Race relations, Civil rights, Segregation, Discrimination, Civil rights workers, Racism, Integration, Civil rights demonstrations, Haydon Burns (1912-1987), National Association for the Advancement of Colored People. Youth Council

Extent

00:06:02; 5 page transcript

Subject: geographic

Duval County (Fla.); Jacksonville (Fla.)

Language

English

Digital Date

2026

Media Type

Audio recordings

Format

Digital Only

Identifier

fhc_audio-1087

Creative Commons

This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 4.0 License.

Recommended Citation

Dudley, Bill; King, Iona Godfrey; Bartley, Abel; and Hearst, Rodney, "The Civil Rights Movement in Jacksonville" (2004). Florida Humanities Audio Archive. 88.
https://digitalcommons.usf.edu/fhc_audio/88