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August 12th

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  1. 2017
    The Record

    Unite the Right rally in Charlottesville

    White nationalists, neo-Nazis, and Klansmen converge on Charlottesville, Virginia, to protest the removal of a Robert E. Lee statue. Rally attendee James Alex Fields Jr. drives a Dodge Challenger into counterprotesters, killing Heather Heyer and injuring nineteen others. Fields is later convicted of first-degree murder.

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