The violent attack was in response to peaceful lunch counter demonstrations organized by the Jacksonville Youth Council of the National. It was August 27, 1960, a day that became known as Ax Handle Saturday. More than 200 white people wielding baseball bats and ax handles chased African Americans through the streets of downtown Jacksonville, trying to beat them into submission.
In 1917, Kelly was arrested and charged with the murder of one of the victims of the Villisca Axe Murders.Seven leaders of the Cape Town zone of the Neo Black Movement of Africa, also known as Black Axe, and an eighth man who conspired with a Black Axe leader, were charged with multiple federal. Kelly and his wife settled in Macedonia, Iowa in 1912 after several years of preaching throughout the Midwest. The other appeared to have also been bitten by a human.The other prime suspect in the Axe murders was Reverend George Kelly, a traveling preacher. One of them had severe sharp force inures on his hands, which a detective wrote was consistent with defensive wounds.
He also had a debit card issued to McLin, according to court records. He was wearing a backpack that contained an axe, which appeared to have blood on it, police said.
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