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The Jena 6.(READING BETWEEN THE HEADLINES)(Jena, Louisiana students' case)(Brief article)
AFTER WHITE STUDENTS hung nooses from the "white" tree at their high school in Jena, Louisiana, several fights ensued, culminating in one where six Black kids beat a white student after he taunted them with racial epithets. The "Jena 6" (as the Black teens have come to be known) were ...
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