Located on what is now known as Martin Luther King Jr. Avenue in St. Augustine, Florida, the Janie Price Home is one of the stops on the ACCORD Freedom Trail. Mrs. Janie Price was a nurse at Flagler Hospital, who received her nursing training at Grady Hospital. While in Atlanta, she would attend dances at Morehouse College, where she met Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.

When Dr. King visited St. Augustine on May 31, 1964, to join the protests at Monson Motor Lodge, he stayed in a series of homes to hide his whereabouts. Janie Price volunteered her home on Central Avenue to shelter Dr. King and Rev. Ralph Abernathy. During these protests, King was arrested and penned his “Letter from the Saint Augustine Jail” to his friend Rabbi Israel Dresner. Rabbi Dresner, along with sixteen other rabbis, joined the protests and were arrested. To date, it is the largest mass arrest of rabbis in the United States. Civil rights activists waded into the motel’s pool to protest segregation. In response, the motel manager, James Brock, poured muriatic acid into the pool to drive the protesters out of the water, thereby creating one of the most horrific and memorable images of the protest.

Protesters left St. Augustine on July 1, 1964, and President Lyndon Johnson signed the Civil Rights Act on July 2, 1964.