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Maxwell, Lesli A. – Education Week, 2007
This article reports the racial tensions in Jena, Louisiana. On Aug. 31, 2006, school leaders in Jena, Louisiana, arrived to find two nooses hanging from an oak tree on the campus of Jena High School. The events since that incident--including the beating of a white student and resulting criminal charges against six black schoolmates that have…
Descriptors: Racial Bias, African American Students, White Students, Violence