'Ax Handle Saturday' rally will honor victims of Jacksonville race riot while Trump accepts nomination at White House

On Thursday, President Trump officially accepts the Republican presidential nomination on the final night of the Republican National Convention from the White House lawn. The venue for his speech has been a source of controversy and was changed several times, and the use of the White House for a partisan political event has few, if any, precedents. But the previously announced choice, Jacksonville, Fla., was problematic for other reasons, particularly among Black Americans. Aug. 27 is the 60th anniversary of a notorious episode in the city that had been known as the “Harlem of the South” for its rich African-American cultural history: the bloody race riot known as “Ax Handle Saturday.” 

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