KKK PROTESTS REMOVAL OF 'DIXIE' AT OLE MISS: 12 Klansmen stage rally before LSU-Ole Miss game.
(November 23, 2009)
*About a dozen hooded Ku Klux Klan members staged a brief rally at the University of Mississippi before Saturday's football game with No. 10 LSU to protest the school's decision to drop a pep song that included "Dixie."
Members of the Mississippi White Knights of the Ku Klux Klan spent about 10 minutes waving flags, displaying Nazi-style salutes and occasionally gesturing at a group of about 250 hecklers that included young children, reports the Associated Press.
Some fans had been ending the Dixie-enhanced pep song by chanting, "The South will rise again." Chancellor Dan Jones asked the band to stop playing it altogether after fans ignored a request to drop the chant.
The Klan said it was protesting over lost Southern symbolism at Ole Miss, which has been rocked by racial strife before.
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