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The August 11–12 Unite the Right rally was organized by Charlottesville native and white supremacist Jason Kessler to protest the Charlottesville City Council's decision to remove the Robert E. Lee statue honoring the Confederate general, as well as the renaming of the statue's eponymous park (renamed to Emancipation Park in June 2017, and ...
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On June 24, 2018, during a court hearing, Kessler...
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The renaming of the park and the proposed removal of the...
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Anti-Racist Action (ARA), also known as the Anti-Racist...
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The Charlottesville car attack was a white supremacist...
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The Charlottesville car attack was a white supremacist terrorist attack perpetrated on August 12, 2017, when James Alex Fields Jr. deliberately drove his car into a crowd of people peacefully protesting the Unite the Right rally in Charlottesville, Virginia, killing one person and injuring 35.
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Charlottesville, best known for being home to the state university created by Thomas Jefferson, may seem like an unusual choice for a heated battle involving neo-Nazis, but there was a reason that "Unite the Right" organizers chose the town for their rally. Charlottesville had been in a months-long battle over what to do with a statue of Gen. Rober...
President Donald Trumpwas spending time at his golf club in Bedminister, New Jersey, and released a statement condemning the violence but not calling out the white nationalist and neo-Nazi groups in attendance. "We condemn in the strongest possible terms this egregious display of hatred, bigotry, and violence on many sides — on many sides," Trump s...
Groups from both sides of the conflict have planned public demonstrations on the anniversary of the Charlottesville clashes, but this time they're moving it to a bigger stage. Permits for protests have been granted in different parts of Washington D.C., with the organizers of the original "Unite the Right" rally planning to march from a nearby Metr...
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Oct 25, 2021 · The Charlottesville march on Aug. 12, 2017, known as the “Unite the Right” rally, was organized to protest the planned removal of a statue of Robert E. Lee from a park at the city center. It...
Nov 19, 2021 · By Nicole Sganga. November 19, 2021 / 12:29 PM EST / CBS News. Jury deliberations are underway in the civil case involving notorious white nationalist and neo-Nazi leaders who organized the two-day...
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Oct 27, 2021 · The "Unite the Right" rally that began on the night of 11 August 2017, in Charlottesville, was seen as a defining moment in recent American history. An alleged neo-Nazi plowed into...
Nov 8, 2021 · Hundreds of white nationalists descended on Charlottesville on Aug. 11 and Aug. 12, 2017, ostensibly to protest city plans to remove a statue of Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee. Clashes between...
