Mimi Jones; born Mamie Nell Ford (May 4, 1947 – July 26, 2020) was an American civil rights activist who played a part in the St. Augustine movement during the 1960s.
The subsequent photographs of Brock's actions were broadcast around the world and made the front pages of The New York Times, The Washington Post and many other newspaper publications.
Martin Luther King Jr., who was arrested during a sit-in for trying to eat a meal at that same hotel, in his memoir described St. Augustine as a "rock-bound bastion of segregation and discrimination.
At the age of 15, Jones taught illiterate black men and women in Georgia how to read so that they could pass their poll literacy tests.
Due to the additional press and media coverage of the 400th anniversary of the city, Dr. King and leaders from the NAACP and Southern Christian Leadership Conference believed that St. Augustine would be an ideal place to rally national support for the passage of the Civil Rights Act of 1964.