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  Thursday  October 3  2002    12: 11 AM

Non-violence

Woman in silent stand against Klan
Supremacist group ends Bowling Green rally moments later

Laquetta Shepard, a diminutive 24-year-old black woman from Louisville with tears in her eyes, stepped into the middle of a group of about five Ku Klux Klan supporters yesterday.

She said nothing.

But the fact that Shepard, a senior at Western Kentucky University, was there with her arms crossed as she stood in silence, brought what was billed as a major Klan rally to a halt 40 minutes earlier than planned. [read more]

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