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Group that opposes Confederate symbols plans Confederacy Heritage Awareness Rally in
Norfolk
By Eric Hartley
The Virginian-Pilot
Sep 14, 2017 Updated 56 min ago

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Roy Perry-Bey, seen at an Aug. 16 rally calling for the removal of a Confederate monument in downtown Norfolk,has applied to hold a Confederacy Heritage Awareness Rally on
Saturday.

NORFOLK

A civil-rights group that supports removal of Confederate monuments and other symbols plans to hold a rally downtown on Saturday.

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Roy Perry-Bey of the Coalition for Equal Justice said the group will hold a Confederacy Heritage Awareness Rally on the sidewalks of
Brambleton Avenue near The Virginian-Pilots building. The street will remain open.

We want to educate people about the Confederacy and the acts of the Confederacy, Perry-Bey said Thursday.

He said some of those present will speak about atrocities suffered by their family members during and after slavery, including lynchings.

The application for an expressive activity permit was filed Monday and had not yet been approved as of Thursday afternoon, city
spokeswoman Lori Crouch said.

The rally is proposed for 9 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. on the sidewalk in front of The Pilots offices at 150 W. Brambleton Ave., as well as on the
sidewalk across the street between Granby and Boush streets.

Perry-Bey, a longtime civil rights activist from Hampton, said he expects at least 50 people at the rally and has invited many more. He said
Brambleton Avenue was chosen because its centrally located in the city, with several public housing communities nearby.

A draft permit provided by the city said participants would be allowed to use a megaphone and distribute literature to pedestrians, but not to
drivers.

The rally would come exactly a month after 200 people, including Perry-Bey, gathered around a Confederate monument downtown to call for
its removal. Crouch said organizers of that rally did not seek a permit, but the city decided one was not needed because it was a spontaneous
event responding to violence in Charlottesville.

During an Aug. 12 white-supremacist rally in Charlottesville, a man drove a car into a crowd of people, killing 32-year-old Heather Heyer. She
was there to speak out against the white supremacists, who were drawn to Charlottesville because of the citys plan to remove a Robert E. Lee
statue.

Eric Hartley, 757-932-7511, eric.hartley@pilotonline.com

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Eric Hartley
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Eric Hartley, who covers the city of Norfolk for The Virginian-Pilot, has been a reporter, columnist or editor in Maryland, California, Nevada and now Virginia. Know
about something in Norfolk that someone is trying to keep secret? Drop him a line.

eric.hartley@pilotonline.com

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