This chapter continues the exploration of the first wave of SCLC action in St. Augustine. It begins by looking at the St. Johns County Jail, where a number of college students from the north are incarcerated for taking part in sit-ins.

The population of the jail is then expanded to include some younger and some much older activists. The younger ones come from an audacious walkout from Richard J. Murray High School. Streams of high school students walk by the Slave Market and enter the dining room at the Hotel Ponce de León. The older activists are led by Mary Peabody, the wife of an Episcopal bishop and the mother of the sitting governor of Massachusetts. Peabody’s regal presence brings the St. Augustine movement its first real national attention as she is pictured on Page 1 of The New York Times.

After Peabody is released and the students return north, St. Augustine Mayor Joseph Shelley feels vindicated, until he learns of Peabody’s damning account of the city on the NBC Today show on April 13.