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104 Va. L. Rev. Online 1 (2018)

handle is hein.journals/inbrf104 and id is 1 raw text is: COPYRIGHT 0 2018 VIRGINIA LAW REVIEW AsSOCIATION VIRGINIA LAW REVIEW ONLINE VOLUME 104 JANUARY2018 1-7 FOREWORD Farah Peterson. On August 11 and 12, 2017, neo-Nazis and Klansmen came to Charlottesville to hold a rally meant to assert themselves as a force in American society. That event, and the President's reaction to it, raised the disturbing possibility that for the first time in more than fifty years, white supremacy could be a matter of debate at the highest levels of American politics. This Foreword asks what legal scholarship has to contribute in times like these. It also introduces a partial answer: a group of student and faculty pieces analyzing some of the many difficult legal questions the rally raised. T'S hard to know where to begin the story that culminated in the murder of Heather Heyer and the injury to our body politic. It could start in the early twentieth century, when black service in WWI and the rhetoric of that war gave black Americans new hope and inspired them to new militancy in demanding equal citizenship.' These hopes, short-lived, were smashed by a reaction of violence that was probably unprecedented.2 The last six months of 1919 saw twenty-five race riots in American cities, north and south, in which mobs took over cities for days at a time, flogging, burning, shooting, and torturing at will.3 It was also in 1919, that Paul Goodloe Mclntire, a one-time UVA attendee and a great university benefactor, dedicated the first of the four bronze statues he had Associate Professor of Law, University of Virginia School of Law. 1 C. Vann Woodward, The Strange Career of Jim Crow 114 (1974). 2 Id. 3 Id.

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