May 27th 2 sites of significance during St Augustine's Civil Rights era in 1964

On the lower part of St Augustine Beach, there is a section known as Butler Beach, named after a Black businessman that was very successful, and he developed the area for Blacks to use.  

The first stop was 5718 Rudolph Avenue, a home where Dr King stayed from time to time: currently the house is listed on the Internet for sale at near 400,000 dollars....

5718 Rudolph Ave., Butler Beach

This house was formerly part of a motel built by Frank Butler, St. Augustine's leading black businessman. He was the founder of Butler's Beach, which includes today's Butler Beach County Park. Formerly a state park, the state gave it to the county to maintain in the 1980s. The park includes an Intracoastal Waterway section, as well as a section on the Atlantic Ocean side, and includes both public park and private homes. As one of the historic black beaches from the age of segregation, it is included in the state of Florida's Black Heritage Trail. This was one of the houses where King stayed, as he was regularly moved around for his safety.

Next, up the street a bit, was an ACCORD site, 5480 Atlantic View, which was another house Dr King stayed.  This one is most remembered as having been shot at and left with bullet holes, thinking Dr King was in the residence at the time.  

Freedom Trail - 5480 Atlantic View

Inscription. This beach cottage attracted international attention in 1964, and a photograph taken here of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. pointing to a bullet hole in the window has become one of the iconic images of the civil rights movement. It was the winter home of Dr. Cyril M. Canright (1894-1965) and his wife Winifred (1898-1995), who taught as missionaries in China in the 1920s and 1930s and later made their home in New Jersey. They were supporters of the civil rights movement. They made their beach house available to Dr. King when he came here with his Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC) at the urging of Dr. Robert B. Hayling and the St. Augustine movement in May 1964. The mass campaign led to the passage of the landmark Civil Rights Act of 1964. SCLC staffers Dorothy Cotton, Rev. C.T. Vivian, and Harry Boyte visited or stayed here, but Dr. King had not yet spent a night in the house when the local newspaper ran directions to it on the front page, and segregationists attacked it. They shot up the house on May 28, 1964, and then attempted to burn it on May 30. On June 8, they smashed the windows and furniture, painted racist graffiti inside, and firebombed it. All of these events were widely reported around the country, and increased public pressure to do away with racial segregation. Dr. Canright passed away the next year, but Mrs. Canright continued up into her 90s to work for prison reform and other causes in New Jersey. She was honored there by the naming of the Winifred Canright House in Asbury Park, which provides housing for people with HIV/AIDS who might otherwise be homeless. Gay and Kathleen Welborn from Gainesville, Florida, put the heavily damaged house back into livable condition. They made their home here while running businesses on St. George Street in downtown St. Augustine. Mrs. Welborn was also a nurse at Flagler Hospital. When she passed away in 2009 at the age of 93, she was the senior member of the local Altrusa Club. This house has been featured, as a civil rights landmark, in newspaper stories, books, television programs, and in Clennon King's 2004 movie "Slave Market Diary." Erected 2009 by Northrop Grumman Corporation and ACCORD. Location. 29° 47.61′ N, 81° 15.611′ W. Marker is in St. Augustine, Florida, in Saint Johns County. Marker is on Atlantic View Avenue north of Sea Oats Road, on the left when traveling south