Jena Six: Black Students Charged With Attempted Murder After School Fight in Jena, Louisiana

Six Black students in Jena, Louisiana — Mychal Bell, Robert Bailey, Carwin Jones, Bryant Purvis, Theo Shaw, and Jesse Ray Beard — were charged with attempted second-degree murder after a schoolyard fight following months of racial provocation, including white students hanging nooses from a tree. Charges were widely condemned as racially disproportionate, triggering a major civil rights march in September 2007.