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Aiken Standard in Aiken, South Carolina

22 Jan 2008

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Aiken Standard

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Aiken, South Carolina, United States of America

Date

Jan 22, 2008

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7

Jena protest over MLK holiday draws dispersed crowd

About 50 white separatists protested in Jena La during the MLK holiday while roughly 100 counterdemonstrators faced off outside the LaSalle Parish Courthouse. Police kept groups apart with one counterdemonstrator arrested for battery on an officer as a New Black Panther member was detained amid tense chants and a brief police tangle near the podium.

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Jena LaSalle Parish KKK Black Panther Richard Barrett William Winchester Jr New Orleans New Black Panthers Nationalist Movement Ku Klux Klan Court House New Black Panthers Party
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States honor Lee on King Day in three Deep South states

In Arkansas Alabama and Mississippi Robert E. Lee shares a state holiday with Martin Luther King Jr. The piece notes street names and local sentiment showing Lee’s lingering presence alongside King in governance culture and memory. State Senator Tracy Steele discusses possible separation, while Civil War imagery remains visible in public life.

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Little Rock Ark Martin Luther King Jr Arkansas Alabama Mississippi Robert E. Lee Amy Lee King Steele North Ulysses S. Grant
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