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Nooses were left in a black Coast Guard cadet's bag and in the office of a white officer who conducted race relations training after the incident, leading a congressman to call Tuesday for a thorough military investigation.
A downtown fire station was shut down Friday after two black firefighters reported finding hangman's nooses on their gear when they arrived at work.
The noose — like the burning cross — is a generations-old means of instilling racial fear. But some experts suspect the Jena furor reintroduced some bigots to the rope. They say the recent incidents might also reflect white resentment over the protests in Louisiana.
A noose was discovered this week on the office door of an African-American professor at Columbia University, school officials and the New York Police Department said.
A noose was found dangling in a Long Island town's police department, horrifying officials who rushed to condemn the hateful act.
Six black teens beat up a white kid in Jena, Louisiana, and Al Sharpton hails it as "the start of the 21st century civil rights movement." The white teen who was assaulted had nothing to do with the hoo-ha.
Sharpton: Bail being posted for Mychal BellStory Highlights Bell and five other black teens are accused of beating white student Justin Barker Beating followed white students hanging nooses from a tree on school grounds
Authorities in Alexandria, Louisiana, arrested two people after nooses were seen hanging from the back of a red pickup Thursday night, the city's mayor told CNN.
The tree that started all the trouble was one of those beautiful old Southern oaks with thick outspread boughs offering a haven of cool shade in the noon heat. It stood outside the high school in rural Jena, La., where it was known as the White Tree.
The US civil rights leader and former presidential candidate Jesse Jackson set off a racial firestorm yesterday after he accused his fellow Democrat and fellow African American, Barack Obama, of "acting like he's white" in his campaign for the White House.
During a civil rights lawsuit brought by black employees, a bag of hangman's nooses was found under the plant's human resources director's desk, Ferguson reported. Clayton said that when black employees complained, nothing changed.
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