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Georgia Hate Map: Group Shows Active Racist Organizations (ICYMI)
The Southern Poverty Law Center says 32 hate groups — from the KKK to black separatists — are based in Georgia.

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Main image: In this April 23, 2016 photo, members of the Ku Klux Klan participate in cross and swastika burnings after a "white pride" rally in Georgia. (AP Photo/Mike Stewart) Map via Southern Poverty Law Center.
ATLANTA, GA — After a white nationalist gathering in Charlottesville, Virginia, whipped up racial violence that led to the death of one anti-racism protester over the weekend, the Southern Poverty Law Center is shining a light on hate groups throughout the nation.
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Across the country, 917 organizations that meet the group's criteria for being designated a hate group currently are active. The SPLC says 32 hate groups — from the Ku Klux Klan and racist skinhead organizations to virulently anti-gay churches to black separatists — call Georgia home.
The SLPC website has an interactive map showing the location of hate groups state by state. Here's where those groups are active in the Peach State:
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- League of the South, Macon, Ne0-Confederate
- All Eyes On Egypt Bookstore, Macon, Black Separatist
- All Eyes On Egipt Bookstore, Monticello, Black Separatist
- III% Security Force Georgia, statewide, Anti-Muslim
- Loyal White Knights of the Ku Klux Klan, Covington, KKK
- Covenant People's Ministry, Brooks, Christian Identity
- New Black Panther Party for Self Defense, Stone Mountain, Black Separatist
- Israel United In Christ, Atlanta, Black Separatist
- Faith Baptist Church (formerly Sons of Thundr), Greenville, Anti-LGBT
- All Eyes on Egipt Bookstore, Decatur, Black Separatist
- Alternative Right, Atlanta, White Nationalist
- Israelite School of Universal Practical Knowledge, Atlanta, Black Separatist
- Occidental Quarterly/Charles Martel Society, Atlanta, White Nationalist
- New Black Panther Party, Atlanta, Black Separatist
- Nation of Islam, Atlanta, Black Separatist/Nation of Islam
- Blood and Honour Social Club, statewide, Racist Skinhead
- Crew 38, statewide, Racist Skinhead
- Confederate Hammerskins, statewide, Racist Skinhead
- National Socialist Movement, statewide, Neo-Nazi
- Nation of Islam, Columbus, Black Separatist/Nation of Islam
- American Vision, Powder Springs, Anti-LGBT
- Aryan Nations Worldwide, Villa Rica, Neo-Nazi
- Loyal White Knights of the Ku Klux Klan, Dallas, KKK
- Loyal White Knights of the Ku Klux Klan, Canton, KKK
- New Black Panther Party, Augusta, Black Separatist
- Nation of Islam, Augusta, Black Separatist/Nation of Islam
- International Keystone Knights of the Ku Klux Klan, Cedartown, KKK
- United Northern and Southern Knights of the Ku Klux Klan East, Ellijay, KKK
- Southern National Congress, Morganton, Neo-Confederate
- New Black Panther Party, Waycross, Black Separatist
- Loyal White Knights of the Ku Klux Klan, Valdosta, KKK
- Nation of Islam, Brunswick, Black Separatist/Nation of Islam
The SPLC's Hate Map is searchable by hate group and state.
On Sunday, hundreds of anti-racism demonstrators rallied in Atlanta and Decatur. The Atlanta group marched from Woodruff Park downtown to Piedmont Park in Midtown. There, someone defaced a "Peace" monument erected in 1911 and dedicated to soldiers who fought in the Civil War.

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Main image: In this April 23, 2016 photo, members of the Ku Klux Klan participate in cross and swastika burnings after a "white pride" rally in Georgia. (AP Photo/Mike Stewart) Map via Southern Poverty Law Center.
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