Transcript provided by NPR, Copyright NPR. Their conversation has been archived at the American Folklife Center at the Library of Congress. Lisa is an assistant professor at the University of Virginia and now runs her own sewing group, Black Women Stitch. But we are still here.įADEL: That's Lisa Woolfork with Kendall King-Sellars for Stor圜orps in Charlottesville, Va. WOOLFORK: But I think that there's also a lot of bright spots because we got so many no's about trying to get rid of the statues, and those statues are gone. And I really felt like I'm no longer welcome. Hundreds of white nationalists gathered in Charlottesville, Virginia, over the weekend for a Unite the Right rally, and demonstrators lined up to counterprotest. About three or four days later, I get an envelope in the mail, and it is my check that I have paid for the next gathering. And it's only a solution because it wasn't a problem for them. Starting at a municipal park less than a mile away, alt-right protesters who have gathered for the weekend Unite the Right rally marched in a long column over the short distance to the. So many people wanted to just ignore it, as if ignoring it was the solution. But after the attacks, someone said to me, well, Lisa, it's been told that Charlottesville is not to be discussed. When my babies were born, they made me a quilt. When my father died unexpectedly, they made me a quilt. WOOLFORK: You know, up to that point, I had been sewing with a group of older white ladies where, no matter how old I was, I was always the youngest, and I wasn't even young. The Unite the Right rally was a white supremacist rally that took place in Charlottesville, Virginia, from August 1112, 2017. The lawsuit, brought by civil rights nonprofit Integrity First for America on behalf of nine plaintiffs who were attacked by Unite the Right rallygoers on Aug. But it felt to me important as a mother to try to be out here now so that my children won't have to be out here later. And I knew how dangerous all of this was. And it really galled me - I would have to tell my grandmother that I was prepping to go down to a Klan rally to resist the Klan. LISA WOOLFORK: My grandmother, who was still alive in 2017, was born in 1913, the same year that Harriet Tubman died. She came to Stor圜orps to remember that day with her friend and fellow Charlottesville resident Kendall King-Sellars. Fifty-two-year-old Lisa Woolfork was in that crowd. The Unite the Right rally turned deadly when a car rammed into a crowd of counterprotesters. (AP) A jury ordered 17 white nationalist leaders and organizations to pay more than 26 million in damages Tuesday over the violence that erupted during the deadly 2017 Unite the Right rally in Charlottesville in 2017. Five years ago today, hundreds of white nationalists converged on Charlottesville, Va., to protest the removal of a Confederate monument.
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