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KKK Plans Protest At LSU-Ole Miss Game
Posted: Nov 20, 2009 5:25 PM by Rob Kirkpatrick
OXFORD, Miss. (AP) - Ku Klux Klansmen say they'll protest
Saturday at the University of Mississippi.
Grand titan Shane Tate of Tupelo says members are unhappy
because Ole Miss Chancellor Dan Jones told the band to drop a pep
song after some fans had been chanting "the South will rise
again."
Dean of Students Sparky Reardon says the Klan will be allowed to
protest for an hour beginning at 10 a.m., four hours before the Ole
Miss-LSU football game.
Susan Glisson with Ole Miss' Center for Racial Reconciliation
says students plan a counter-protest wearing shirts that say,
"Turn Your Back on Hate."
On Nov. 10, Jones asked the band to stop playing "From Dixie
With Love," which blends the Confederate Army's fight song,
"Dixie," with the Union Army's "Battle Hymn of the Republic."
(Copyright 2009 by The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved.)
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