In 1967 Booker High School is closed.
City of Sarasota passes an ordinance against interracial beaches
On the year 1967, in defiance of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, the City of Sarasota passed an ordinance against interracial beaches. Carloads of Newtown residents drove repeatedly to several segregated beaches, protesting the discriminatory Jim Crow policies until they were revoked.
The federal government orders all schools to integrate
In 1967 the Sarasota County schools are integrated.