The Movement Comes to Jena
Against The Current vol. 131
Dubinsky, Joanna
http://www.solidarity-us.org/node/1169
Date Written: 2007-11-01
Publisher: Against The Current
Year Published: 2007
Resource Type: Article
Cx Number: CX13334
The humid air felt electric as the sun ascended over the hundreds of buses idling a 20-mile stretch of Louisiana Route 49, the gateway to the rural hometown of the Jena 6. It was 6 AM, September 20, 2007 — the day Mychal Bell was initially scheduled to be sentenced for his role in the beating of a white classmate — and northeast central Louisiana, on the border of Mississippi, was looking anything but sleepy.
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