May 19th Second stop on the Civil Rights Tour: 1074 West King Street Ms Georgie Reed's House

This was a rather non-descript house on King Street, a major thoroughfare, but boy what a story is attached to it.   

1074 W King Street Freedom Trail

Inscription. This was the home of Mrs. Georgie Mae Reed (1926-1995), who took part in one of the most famous events in the civil rights movement that changed America and inspired the world. On March 31, 1964, Mrs. Reed was one of five St. Augustine women who accompanied Mrs. Mary Peabody, the 72 year old mother of the governor of Massachusetts, to the Ponce de Leon Motor Lodge on U.S. 1 North. The group sat down in the restaurant there and asked to be served. They were arrested instead. That event was reported on the front page of newspapers around the country, and from that point on, international attention was focused on the activities in St. Augustine that led directly to the passage of the landmark Civil Rights Act of 1964. Mrs. Reed suffered from polio, but she did not allow that to stop her on the day that she put on her Sunday best and walked off into American history. She told her story to Pulitzer Prize-winning author Taylor Branch when he was in St. Augustine in 1991, but did not live long enough to see his book Pillar of Fire (1998) in which her heroism was celebrated. This Historic Marker Presented this 2nd Day of July 2008 by Northrop Grumman. Erected 2008 by Northrop Grumman and the 40th Anniversary to Commemorate the Civil Rights Demonstrations, Inc. (ACCORD)  Marker series. This marker is included in the Florida, St. Augustine Freedom Trail marker series. Location. 29° 53.378′ N, 81° 21.008′ W. Marker is in St. Augustine, Florida, in Saint Johns County. Marker is on West King Street near Webb Street. She doesn't look much like a threat to me! Showing the newspaper account that Ms Peabody had been arrested  Ms Peabody leaving jail with Dr Hayling