From: The Washington Post <[email protected]> To: (WF) (FBI)" Subject: [MARKETING] The Daily 202: Trump poised to accept GOP nod in Jacksonville, Fla., on 6oth anniversary of 'Ax Handle Saturday' Date: Thu, ii Jun 2020 16:43:50 +0000 Important Normal e: Sign up for this newsletter Read online The Washington Post The Daily 202 Intelligence for leaders. Warne By James Hohmann with Mariana Alfaro Hohma Email Trump poised to accept GOP nod in Jacksonville, Fla., on 60th anniversary of `Ax Handle Saturday' On Aug. 27, 1960, a mob of 2OO white people in Jacksonville, Fla. — organized by the Ku Klux Klan and joined by some of the city's police officers — chased and beat peaceful civil rights protesters who were trying to integrate downtown lunch counters. The bloody carnage that followed — in which ax handles and baseball bats were used to club African Americans, who sought sanctuary in a church — is remembered as "Ax Handle Saturday." A permit had already been approved for the 6oth anniversary commemoration of those events when Republican National Committee officials tentatively decided to move their convention festivities from EFTA00162695