Despite canceling their second protest Saturday and infighting over public image, the “White Lives Matter” rally in Tennessee last weekend was the largest public white nationalist gathering in years, outside of Unite the Right in Charlottesville, Va.
The crowd of roughly 200 far-right demonstrators – representing white and southern nationalist, neo-Nazi and white supremacist groups – is the first large gathering the movement has assembled since the rally in August, according to the Anti-Defamation League.
Unite the Right, involving several of the same organizations that held White Lives Matter in Shelbyville, left one woman dead and dozens injured after a car plowed into a group of counterprotesters. Others were hurt earlier in the morning as demonstrators from opposing sides assaulted one another.
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