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August 12th
1 event recorded on The Ledger.
- 2017The 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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