[To read more provocative stories on race from The New York Times, sign up for our Race/Related newsletter here.] NEWNAN, Ga. — It was the Saturday afternoon that this small Southern city had been dreading. A group of neo-Nazis promised to hold a rally in downtown Newnan to celebrate Adolf Hitler’s birthday and rail against illegal immigration and the removal of Confederate monuments. But it turned out that only a few dozen white nationalists attended the rally, and the Newnan they had imagined no longer existed. A year after the white nationalist rally, the town made an effort to do so by putting up 17 large-scale banner portraits, images of the ordinary people who make up Newnan.

Source: New York Times January 19, 2020 07:52 UTC