In 1964 this beach cottage became internationally known when a photograph taken here showed Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. pointing to a bullet hole in its window, creating one of the iconic images of the civil rights movement. The house was the winter home of Dr. Cyril M. Canright and his wife, Winifred, missionaries in China in the 1920s and 1930s who later lived in New Jersey and supported the civil rights movement. At the urging of Dr. Robert B. Hayling and the St. Augustine movement, they made the beach house available to Dr. King and the Southern Christian Leadership Conference in May 1964. SCLC staffers Dorothy Cotton, Rev. C.T. Vivian, and Harry Boyte visited or stayed here, but before Dr. King had spent a night in the house, a local newspaper published directions to it on the front page and segregationists attacked. They riddled the house with gunfire on May 28, 1964, tried to burn it on May 30, and on June 8 smashed windows and furniture, painted racist graffiti inside, and firebombed it. These attacks were widely reported across the country and increased public pressure to end racial segregation, while the mass campaign in St. Augustine helped lead to passage of the Civil Rights Act of 1964. Dr. Canright died the following year, and Winifred Canright continued working into her 90s for prison reform and other causes in New Jersey, where the Winifred Canright House in Asbury Park was later named in her honor to provide housing for people with HIV/AIDS who might otherwise be homeless. Gay and Kathleen Welborn of Gainesville, Florida, restored the heavily damaged house to livable condition and lived here while operating businesses on St. George Street in downtown St. Augustine; Kathleen Welborn also worked as a nurse at Flagler Hospital and, when she died in 2009 at age 93, was the senior member of the local Altrusa Club. The house has since been featured as a civil rights landmark in newspaper stories, books, television programs, and Clennon King's 2004 film "Slave Market Diary."