Heather Heyer
Heather Heyer (1985 - August 12, 2017) was a paralegal and a civil rights activist. She died at the 2017 Unite the Right rally in Charlottesville, Virginia.[1][2][3] The Southern Poverty Law Center added her name and image to the Wall of Tolerance inside the Civil Rights Memorial Center in Montgomery, Alabama. [4][5]
Heyer was in a group of counterprotesters when she was killed by a man in a car. The man drove the car into the group. Nineteen people were hurt. Heyer was the only person killed.[6]
References[change | change source]
- ↑ https://www.nytimes.com/2017/08/13/us/heather-heyer-charlottesville-victim.html
- ↑ http://www.cnn.com/2017/08/13/us/charlottesville-heather-heyer-profile/index.html
- ↑ https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2017/aug/13/woman-killed-at-white-supremacist-rally-in-charlottesville-named
- ↑ https://www.splcenter.org/news/2017/08/18/splc-honors-heather-heyer-civil-rights-memorial-center
- ↑ http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/columnists/glanton/ct-charlottesville-heather-heyer-dahleen-glanton-met-20170814-story.html
- ↑ https://www.nytimes.com/2017/08/18/us/politics/susan-bro-trump-heather-heyer.html
