Two weeks after the tragedy of Charlottesville, white nationalists rallying in Tennessee were outnumbered by anti-racists 50 to one.
Two weeks after the tragedy of Charlottesville, white nationalists rallying in Tennessee were outnumbered by anti-racists 50 to one.
In the days since Jason Kessler’s Unite the Right (UTR) rally ended in bloodshed, various right wing propagandists have attempted to shift blame by smearing the City of Charlottesville, the Charlottesville Police Department (CPD) and Virginia State Police as being responsible for the death of one counter-protester and two police officers.
David O. Jones, a minister and Christian home schooling advocate, faced outrage from donors last week after a Nashville investigative news team revealed that he was moving their money through a foundation the Southern Poverty Law Center lists as a hate group.
UPDATE 8.17.17
This week the president’s personal lawyer forwarded an email promoting racist, Civil War secessionist views and charging that terrorists control the Black Lives Matter movement, The New York Times reported on Wednesday.
Numerous radical-right figures and groups were present at the deadly white nationalist rally in Charlottesville last weekend. Here is a list of some of the most prominent, with links to SPLC resources about them. We also delve into some of the alt-right symbols that were on display.
Jason Kessler’s “Unite the Right” rally in Charlottesville, Va., last Saturday devolved into a melee of far-right demonstrators, antifascists (antifa), counter-protesters, and police — ultimately resulting in dozens of injuries and three deaths.
Hundreds of white supremacists are planning to descend on Charlottesville, Virginia, today to protest the city council’s decision to remove a statue of Robert E. Lee from a city park.
Hatewatch has previously profiled neo-Confederate League of the South (LOS) President Michael Hill, his Chief of Staff, Michael Tubbs, and various other affiliates and supporters of the organization, including Chief of Security/Intel John Mark “Tiny” Malone.