Gainesville, Ga., workers protest KKK rally
Despite a heavy police presence, several hundred Hall County
residents-and many others from the metropolitan Atlanta
area-gathered in downtown Gainesville, Ga., Oct. 31 to protest
a Ku Klux Klan rally.
These opponents of Klan racism and violence came mostly from
Gainesville's working-class communities. Poultry processing,
the major industry here, employs thousands of white, African
American and Latino workers in non-union plants.
Many people said that their determination to stand up
against KKK violence and intimidation had been reinforced by
the vicious murders of James Byrd Jr. in Texas, Matthew Shepard
in Wyoming and Dr. Barnett Slepian in New York.
-Dianne Mathiowetz
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