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and void.' This sparked protests but little change until 1964, when a series of demonstra-
tions, some led by Martin Luther King, Jr, and race riots rocked St Augustine and helped
spur passage of the national Civil Rights Act of 1964.
More race riots blazed across Florida cities in 1967 and 1968, after which racial conflict
eased as Florida belatedly and begrudgingly desegregated itself. Florida's racial wounds
healed equally slowly - as evidenced by more race riots in the early 1980s. Today, despite
much progress and the fact that Florida is one of the nation's most ethnically diverse states,
these wounds still haven't completely healed.
