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Mississippians Boycott State Fair Over Racist's Inclusion

By Ayana Taylor

Jackson Free Press | October 1, 2004

Richard Barrett, leader of the Nationalist Movement, a white supremacist group headquartered in Learned, Miss., has requested and been granted a booth at the State Fair's Agricultural building. And not many people are happy about it.

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