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Stetson Kennedy

 
American civil rights hero Stetson Kennedy infiltrated Ku Klux Klan (KKK).  Stetson Kennedy's heroic undercover work helped empower Georgia prosecutors to indict KKK leaders and take its charter. 

Stetson Kennedy once ran for Governor of Florida and was arrested on election day in St. Johns County. Stetson Kennedy wrote a number of books about segregation.

Stetson Kennedy and folk singer Woodie Guthrie fought off the KKK in Beleuthahatchie, his home on a lake in Fruit Cove.  Guthrie wrote a song about Stetson Kennedy, now 92, who lives here in St. Augustine.

Stetson Kennedy was named to the Artists Hall of Fame in Florida.  He was awarded the Florida Heartland award by the late Florida Governer "walkin" Lawton Chiles.

Stetson Kennedy also received the Florida Folk Heritage Award and his newest book "Grits and Grunts" received the Carleton Tebeau Award in 2009 as an "outstanding history book" by the Florida Historical Society.