Mimi Jones was a civil rights activist who was the subject of a nationally famous photograph of a “swim-in” in St.
Augustine, Florida.Jones was just a teenager in 1964 when she was galvanized by the Civil Rights Movement to travel from her home in Georgia to St.
Augustine to participate in a protest that helped change the face of America. White activists had rented rooms in a segregated motel, and Black activists joined them to swim in the pool as their guests.
At the same time, other activists were swimming at the segregated beaches of St. Augustine, a city where protests and demonstrations were ongoing.As Jones and fellow activists swam in the motel pool, the motel owner angrily poured acid into the water, stating he was “cleaning the.
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