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.