'The civil rights movement was marching once more yesterday, filling the streets of a little town in the Deep South that has become a symbol of the racial injustice supposed to have been buried by the protests of previous generations.
'Thousands arrived in Jena, Louisiana, wearing black in mock mourning for the segregation laws against which, 50 years ago this month in Little Rock, Arkansas, their forebears had fought so hard.
'But yesterday the protests were not about being denied access to white-only schools or the ballot box. Instead, they were against the unequal application of justice in America that leaves black children with a grossly disproportionate chance of ending up in jail.
'So they marched in support of the “Jena Six”, a group of black teenagers who were initially charged with attempted murder for a high-school fight during which a white boy was knocked unconscious.' (Times Online article).
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