NAACP march protests skinhead gathering

[Kire]

By DON PLUMMER
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Published on: 10/02/05

More than 50 members of the NAACP marched Saturday in rural Paulding County to protest Hammerfest 2005, an annual gathering of avowed racists.

The NAACP group, clad in bright yellow T-shirts, chanted slogans as they walked about two miles between a church and a roadside bar along Ga. 120 where the skinhead gathering was scheduled. A roughly equal number of people stood and lounged outside the Georgia Peach Restaurant and Museum; some heckled the protesters but were otherwise peaceful. <snip>

Stopping outside the restaurant, NAACP protest leaders mounted a pickup truck and used a bullhorn to call upon restaurant owner Patrick Lanzo to disavow the gathering being held on his property. <snip>

Protest speakers, including rally organizer Kimberly Alexander, president of the Douglas County chapter of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, also called upon Lanzo to remove messages on a portable sign in front of his business. <snip>


More: http://www.ajc.com/metro/content/metro/1005/02skinheads.html

[Bernardo de La Paz]

1. Hammerfest? Is that a Tom Delay fundraiser?