This chapter, the first of Part 4, begins by darting back in time to March 1960, nine months prior to Robert Hayling’s arrival in St. Augustine. It shows some of the first civil rights action in the city: protests by students at Florida Memorial College, and (a few months later) a one-man sit-in by Hank Thomas. Both of these actions were neutralized pretty quickly and seemed isolated. Also, we see the emergence in March 1960 of Leon “Buddy” Hough, a candidate for sheriff at the time. Returning to the chronology after the Kennedy assassination in November 1963, we see Hough traveling to Dallas to harvest artifacts of the crime for his vision of St. Augustine tourism: the Tragedy in U.S. History Museum.

Meanwhile, Robert Hayling is being beaten down by a series of legal judgments against him and the lack of support from the national office of the NAACP. At year’s end, he submits his resignation and sends the Youth Council charter back to New York, saying that he hopes that “divine wisdom will guide future efforts to heal the breach in human understanding in our nation’s oldest city.”