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Stormfront white supremacist summit heads to Crossville this weekend
Brittany Crocker, USA TODAY NETWORK – Tennessee Published 4:56 p.m. ET Sept. 29, 2017 | Updated 8:17 p.m. ET Sept. 29, 2017

White supremacists from Stormfront, an online forum of more than 330,000 members, plan to be in Crossville this weekend for a conference replacing what had been billed earlier as their annual Great Smoky Mountains Summit.

Don Black, former Ku Klux Klan Grand Wizard and the forum's founder, announced the Sept. 30 weekend event in July.

In the time since the forum's domain hosts removed the site from the Internet. Don Black also became ill and withdrew from the event, according to Billy Roper, another prominent white supremacist, who took over plans for the conference.

Sept. 30 is also Yom Kippur, the holiest day in the Jewish calendar. Roper said the date was a coincidence.

Read more at: http://www.knoxnews.com/story/news/2017/09/29/stormfront-white-supremacist-summit-heads-crossville-weekend/717617001/

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Updated story, I thought some action might happen; but nothing violent and the restaurant they were going to meet at, did not allow them:

http://www.knoxnews.com/story/news/2017/09/30/protesters-heckle-white-supremacists-gathering-near-crossville/718486001/