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24 hours in Charlottesville : an oral history of the stand against White supremacy / Nora Neus.

by Neus, Nora, author.

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Boston, Massachusetts : Beacon Press, [2023]

Unite the Right Rally, Charlottesville, Va., 2017 -- Personal narratives.

White supremacy movements -- Virginia -- Charlottesville -- History -- 21st century.

Anti-racism -- Virginia -- Charlottesville -- History -- 21st century.

Charlottesville (Va.) -- Race relations -- Political aspects.

9780807011928 (hardcover) :

0807011924 (hardcover)

xxiv, 237 pages : maps ; 24 cm

Pt. 1. Warning flares. "This isn't just a bunch of weird LARPers on some dark corner of the Internet." -- "Take away the permit, bad people are coming." -- Part 2. The riots. "Is somebody going to respond to this? Because this sounds really bad." -- "We have a tip that something is going to happen on grounds." -- "These are racist people carrying torches." -- "If they could have killed us all right then, they would have." -- "Does this change what we're going to do tomorrow? -- "We need to go confront literal Nazis." -- "This is fucked up as a football bat." -- "I remember thinking, Somebody is going to die today." -- "It seemed like war in downtown Charlottesville." -- "It turned into an all-out battle." -- "Call th state of emergency." -- "it was like the resistance camp at the end of the world." -- "I heard a car revving." -- "I always wondered: Was she afraid? Did she see him coming?" -- "Where were the cops? How did this happen?" -- "Senseless death for a rally that should have never happened."

"A gripping oral history of the white nationalist riots that shook the nation and signaled the arrival of a galvanizing new era, told from the perspective of the anti-racist activists who fought back"--

On August 11 and 12, 2017, armed neo-Nazi demonstrators descended on the University of Virginia campus and downtown Charlottesville. When they assaulted antiracist counterprotesters, the police failed to intervene, and events culminated in the murder of counterprotestor Heather Heyer. In this book, Emmy-nominated CNN journalist and former Charlottesville resident Nora Neus crafts an extraordinary account from the voices of the students, faith leaders, politicians, and community members who were there. Through a vivid collage of original interviews, new statements from Charlottesville mayor Mike Signer and Virginia Governor Terry McAuliffe, social media posts, court testimony, and government reports, this book portrays the arrival of white supremacist demonstrators, the interfaith service held in response, the tiki torch march on the university campus, the protests and counterprotests in downtown Charlottesville the next day, and the deadly car attack. 24 Hours in Charlottesville will also feature never-before-disclosed information from activists and city government leaders, including Charlottesville mayor Mike Signer.

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