![]() Chants of, "Who do you protect? Who do you serve?" were aimed at the police. Throughout the march through Danville the police followed behind, from the sides, and often in front of the protestors. A protestor stands with her baseball bat on Main Street, downtown Danville, Virginia, while cop cars sit behind her. She said she was inspired to come out and protest on this Saturday because "this time the KKK is marching in honor of Trump." As protestors in Danville walked with their fists raised in solidarity, people came out of their homes to look, watch, laugh, and raise their own fists. Krista Mounts said the Klan has marched plenty of times in this area, but that she never came down to protest before. ![]() Protestors raised fists in the air as symbols of protest and solidarity as they marched through the streets of Danville, Virginia. Photographed here is the brave but smaller contingent of marchers who sought to confront the Klan directly, and succeeded in denying them their intended celebration in Pelham. Those rallies were covered by Barry Yeoman in The American Prospect. ![]() The Klan fled to Roxboro, North Carolina, about 40 miles away, where they drove a measley 30 vehicles town "shouting 'White power' to no one in particular." They were dwarfed in number by the crowds at large, anti-Klan rallies elsewhere across the state on the same day - the largest of these being in Raleigh, North Carolina.
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