James "Chief" Wilson conducts the Jones High School Band

 



Wilson would invite guest conductors to give him feedback

Jones High School regularly did well in state competitions

The Edgewater High School Band

Del Kieffner

above: Del Kieffner worked his routines out on graph paper. below: overlaid with photograph



Man tries to stop the desegregation of St. Augustine motel pool. Later, hydrochloride acid was poured in the pool to get the activists out.

June 29, 1964 - Police guard black and white bathers from angry mob.  Four days earlier, without police presence,  it was a different scene (below)



James "Chief" Wilson, left and Del Kieffner, right 

Students from Edgewater (Charlotte Lee & Noel Feldman) and Jones High School (Marva Harris & Jean McClellan) 

The Jones band played at the send-off for the Edgewater band. Del Kieffner beams as James "Chief" Wilson conducts.


The Edgewater band at the Florida Pavilion

The Jones High School Band


St. Augustine: Martin Luther King reacts to the news that the Civil Rights Bill has passed the Senate.
At the last minute, sex was added to the bill


The Civil Rights Act Of 1964





Lemuel Penn served in the Philippines during WWII where he won the Bronze Star.

Randomly killed by the KKK days after the Civil Rights Act was signed into law

The all-white jury in Georgia found the killers not-guilty of murder

Lemuel Penn was buried at Arlington with full honors

After James Powell, 15 years old, was shot by NYPD Lt. Thomas Gilligan, six days of rioting broke out in Harlem.  Gilligan, who had previously shot two other people in questionable circumstances, was later cleared of any wrongdoing
Meanwhile back in Mississippi.....two bodies are found
Charles Mingus