Mr. Trump’s Ax Handle
1 min readJun 18, 2020
Lest we think Mr. Trump learned his lesson after retreating from holding a campaign rally in Tulsa, Oklahoma on the anniversary of the Tulsa Race Massacre, he’s decided to deliver his acceptance speech in Jacksonville, Florida on August 27th.
That’s the day in 1960 known as “Ax Handle Saturday,’ when White men with ax handles and baseball bats, supported by police, rioted and attacked peaceful demonstrators at a sit-in at a segregated lunch counter.
