In the picture, James Brooke, the manager of a motel in Florida, empties a bottle of muriteic acid into the swimming pool, driving out a number of black-skinned swimmers, among them the stark woman trying to protect the white man who gives us his back.
The photograph was taken on June 18, 1964, at the Monson Motor Lodge in Florida, one week after the arrest of civil rights activist Martin Luther King at the motel itself, when he tried to sit in the motel restaurant, which accepts only whites, "Infringement".
One week after Luther King's arrest, a group of "integrators" (those who reject racial discrimination and segregation) went to the motel. The white man embracing the lady and her companion, one of them, jumped into the swimming pool. The manager, James Brooke, Acid bottle in water.
Mouritic acid is a non-diluted hydrochloric acid, used in cleaning surfaces and swimming pools, swimmers' fear of pouring acid over them, but one of them, realized that the size of the bottle is too small for the size of water in the aquarium, and to confirm the lack of seriousness, To calm their concern, here a policeman jumped and seized the "integrators".
In fact, the director of the motel is seen as the most affected by this incident. The picture was taken by Horace Croot everywhere, and James Brooke became a model of racism. While Martin Luther King was assassinated a few years later, The motel is so long painted that it died in 2007 at the age of 85 years.
The motel itself was demolished in 2003, and the Hilton Hotel is built above it.
