SLRC UPDATE:
21 March 2003

SLRC Weekly Update

Dear Compatriots:

I hope that everyone had a wonderful St. Patrick's Day and week.  We at the Southern Legal Resource Center have been putting your donations hard at work.  A new incident has broken wide open this week in Beaufort County, South Carolina. Also new developments in our Taylor County case.

Beaufort County, SC

On Monday I began to receive calls from students regarding a ban on Confederate symbols in Beaufort County schools.  The calls are still rolling in today.  Seemingly out of no where the principal at one of the high schools initiated a ban and the other local high school has followed suit.  As a result, over 50 students were suspended on Wednesday for two days.  We have contacted the local Sons of Confederate Veterans camp and they are assisting us with organizing the parents and students.  Stay tuned for details.

Taylor County, FL

As many of you know, we are representing a number of students in Taylor County over the banning of Confederate symbols at school.  On Tuesday Kirk and local counsel, Pat Brosnan attended the Taylor County School Board meeting.  Many students, parents and concerned citizens attended the meeting.  A parent, Duran Wright spoke out against the ban.  Also in attendance was one very angry member of the local NAACP chapter.  He issued a number of threats to the school board and has since targeted a student's father (who happens to be a member of the SCV in Perry, FL) by calling his employer and demanding that he be fired.  The NAACP is claiming that Duran Wright (father mentioned above) is a racist.  This is based solely on the fact that he spoke out against the ban on Confederate symbols.  We are asking our supporters to call the Winn Dixie in Perry, FL and politely ask to speak to the manager and tell him how much you support Duran.  Duran has been working for Winn Dixie for 25 years.  The NAACP is trying to do serious damage to this man.  The number is 850-584-5614.

Kirk and HK are traveling this weekend to attend to the General Executive Council meeting in Elm Springs, TN.  Last weekend Kirk and his sons attended the SC Reunion and had a marvelous time.  They thoroughly enjoyed themselves on the Yorktown.

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Sincerely,

Allison Schaum
Case Manager
2330 SJ Workman Highway
Woodruff, SC 29388
864-476-0656

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For more information about HK's March Across Dixie contact: www.southerncaucus.org/hkedgerton.htm