In Auburn, Anti-Racist Groups Gather For Counter-Organizing In Protest Of Ku Klux Klan
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Anti-racist demonstrators gathered on the sidewalk of the DeKalb County courthouse to share resources and help bolster local activists.
Lauren Chapman/IPB News
Anti-racism organizers from across Indiana and the Midwest gathered in Auburn Saturday in response to a Ku Klux Klan rally on private property.
Auburn is the county seat for DeKalb County – mostly rural and 97 percent White. Activists with Black Lives Matter and No Hate signs filled the sidewalk of the county courthouse to share resources, help bolster anti-racism activists, and host a food drive for the local community.
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What the anti-racist gathering on the DeKalb County Courthouse sidewalks did not produce is any trouble.
People from as far as South Bend, Bloomington and Dayton, Ohio, gathered to respond to a Ku Klux Klan rally taking place at an undisclosed private location near Auburn.
The size of the Klan rally remained a mystery, while about 150-200 people assembled downtown at the rally organized by the newly formed Indiana Mutual Aid Coalition.
Between speeches calling for racial harmony, some people expressed disappointment at the size of the anti-Klan crowd or the number of rifles being carried by a defense team for the rally.
Nearly 100 peaceful demonstrators rallied at the DeKalb County Courthouse in Auburn on Saturday with no sign of the Ku Klux Klan, as had been original .
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