Unite the Right rally

August 12, 2017
Charlottesville, VA

White nationalists clash with counter protesters during the rallies.

On the night of August 11, 2017, hundreds of white nationalists march across the University of Virginia, a campus built by free and enslaved Black laborers, in Charlottesville, the ancestral homelands of the displaced Monacan Indian Nation.

They are protesting the removal of a memorial to a Confederate general. They wave Southern Cross, Nazi and other flags; carry tiki torches; and yell chants like, "Jews will not replace us." The crowd grows bigger the next day, as does a group of counter-protesters, and they clash violently.

The governor declares a state of emergency and orders police to break up the crowds. But as people disperse, a man drives a car into the counter-protesters, killing Heather Heyer and injuring 19 others.

President Trump infamously condemns violence "on many sides.”

Previous
Previous

Watts Rebellion

Next
Next

Mamaroneck riot