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Student coalition voices concern over KKK sign in Dahlonega
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A roomful of visitors attend a press conference reguarding signage featuring Ku Klux Klan imagery recently removed from a building in downtown Dahlonega Tuesday night at the University of North Georgia in Dahlonega. The conference was hosted by a coalition, which organized to primarily boycott the businesses of Roberta Green-Garrett, a local businesswoman that owns several rental properties and the Holiday Inn Express in Dahlonega. - photo by Erin O. Smith
A business owner’s decision to put a Ku Klux Klan banner on a downtown building has led to several days of protests, and now a boycott by a student group at the University of North Georgia. Dahlonega “won’t be pushed around” according to Jordan Parker, one of the five student speakers at a press conference held Tuesday evening at UNG. The conference was held to announce a student coalition’s goal to boycott businesses owned by Roberta Green-Garrett. She owns several rental properties and the Holiday Inn Express in Dahlonega, as well as an antique mall in the town.