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Judi Lynn

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Sat Aug 19, 2017, 08:49 PM Aug 2017

The Latest: Hundreds in downtown Atlanta march to King home

Source: Associated Press


Updated 7:39 pm, Saturday, August 19, 2017

DALLAS (AP) — The Latest on a conservative rally and counterdemonstration in Boston and around the country (all times local):

7:35 p.m.

A diverse crowd of several hundred people marched from downtown Atlanta to the home of the late Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. in protest of white supremacists and other hate groups surfacing across America.

Organizers urged marchers on Saturday to practice King's values and make sure there was no violence.
 
A woman was killed and 19 others injured in Charlottesville, Virginia, last week after a car plowed into counter-demonstrators at a white nationalist rally.

Read more: http://www.chron.com/news/texas/article/The-Latest-Counterprotesters-arrive-ahead-of-11944276.php

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