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Issue: 241

August 9, 2007

Commentary

Jena Louisiana – The Struggle Sharpens

By Li Onesto

The current issue is always free to everyone Reports by Alice Woodward from Jena, Louisiana contributed to this story An intense and growing struggle in the small southern town of Jena, Louisiana reveals this country’s deep roots of slavery, Jim Crow law, and lynch mobs: Black high school students sit under a “whites-only” tree in…

The current issue is always free to everyone Reports by Alice Woodward from Jena, Louisiana contributed to this story An intense and growing struggle in the…

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