In 1962, a group of southern white supremacists known as the White Citizens Council placed fake ads in newspapers to get Black families to move from Louisiana to Hyannis, Massachusetts. The ad was meant to retaliate against the Freedom Riders.
, a group of white and African American civil rights activists who rode around the South in 1961 protesting segregated bus terminals.
When winter arrived, high unemployment led the African Americans to leave Hyannis to search for new opportunities. DeSantis’s statement regarding Wednesday’s flight of the nearly 50 migrants, who are still seeking shelter and work, indicated he disagrees with American immigration policy and implied that he had sent the migrants to Martha’s Vineyard in protest of that policy.
“They were told people were going to meet them here and they’d have resources and the like,” Rep. Dylan Fernandes, who represents Martha’s VineyardDue to insufficient resources available on Martha’s Vineyard, Gov. Charlie Baker solidified a plan on Friday to use Joint Base Cape Cod on Bourne as a temporary shelter and humanitarian resource hub for the migrants.for the roughly 50 Venezuelan migrants who unexpectedly arrived on Martha’s Vineyard earlier this week.