(Featured photo courtesy of: YourObserver.com.)

“Newtown Alive! and Visit Sarasota County organized a re-enactment of the caravans and Lido Beach wade-ins that advocated for integration. The event, held on Martin Luther King Jr. Day, also commemorated the addition of Newtown’s African-American heritage trail to the U.S. Civil Rights Trail.”

Read more about the impactful and historic re-enactment:

https://www.yourobserver.com/photo-gallery/sarasota-lido-beach-integration-newtown-history-civil-rights-trail?amp

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