1074 W King Street

1074 W King Street (HM18HB)

Location: St Augustine, FL 32084 St Johns County
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Country: United States of America
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N 29° 53.378', W 81° 21.008'

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Freedom Trail

This was the home of Mrs. Georgie Mae Reed (1926-1995), who took part in one of the most famous events in the civil rights movement that changed America and inspired the world.

On March 31, 1964, Mrs. Reed was one of five St. Augustine women who accompanied Mrs. Mary Peabody, the 72 year old mother of the governor of Massachusetts, to the Ponce de Leon Motor Lodge on U.S. 1 North. The group sat down in the restaurant there and asked to be served. They were arrested instead.

That event was reported on the front page of newspapers around the country, and from that point on, international attention was focused on the activities in St. Augustine that led directly to the passage of the landmark Civil Rights Act of 1964.

Mrs. Reed suffered from polio, but she did not allow that to stop her on the day that she put on her Sunday best and walked off into American history. She told her story to Pulitzer Prize-winning author Taylor Branch when he was in St. Augustine in 1991, but did not live long enough to see his book Pillar of Fire (1998) in which her heroism was celebrated.

This Historic Marker Presented this 2nd Day of July 2008 by Northrop Grumman.
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HM NumberHM18HB
Series This marker is part of the Florida: St. Augustine Freedom Trail series
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Year Placed2008
Placed ByNorthrop Grumman and the 40th Anniversary to Commemorate the Civil Rights Demonstrations, Inc. (ACCORD)
Marker ConditionNo reports yet
Date Added Friday, October 10th, 2014 at 5:42am PDT -07:00
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Locationbig map
UTM (WGS84 Datum)17R E 466193 N 3306607
Decimal Degrees29.88963333, -81.35013333
Degrees and Decimal MinutesN 29° 53.378', W 81° 21.008'
Degrees, Minutes and Seconds29° 53' 22.68" N, 81° 21' 0.48" W
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Area Code(s)904
Closest Postal AddressAt or near 1074 W King St, St Augustine FL 32084, US
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