Jacksonville City Council was preparing to vote on who would help decide how millions of dollars are spent on the Eastside, and not everyone agreed with the mayor’s picks.

A. Philip Randolph Boulevard runs between the baseball grounds and the arena downtown. But the street is named after an icon and one of the most influential men in the American civil rights movement. Philip Randolph, this prince of a man, the dean of Black leadership, spoke up and he said in his baritone voice ‘Mr. If we don’t have a Civil Rights Act of 1964, if nobody stands up to the discrimination that was taking place at that point, I’m not an urban planner today,” Davis said. “You could largely say there is no march on Washington in 1963 if you don’t have APR and the things he did to pave the way for that 1950s, 1960s civil rights movement.”