FBI Enters Citadel Race Case
The FBI announced today it has started an investigation into racial harassment at The Citadel because of possible civil rights violations at the 144-year-old military college.
Bill Nettles, the head of the FBI’s bureau in Charleston, said his agents are looking into the hazing of former black Cadet Kevin Nesmith. The inquiry focuses on an Oct. 23 incident in which five white cadets burst into the room of Nesmith, shouted racial insults and burned a paper cross. The whites were dressed in Ku Klux Klan-type attire--sheets, pillow cases and towels. Nesmith, 17, resigned from The Citadel shortly after the incident and his family and the NAACP have indicated that they will file lawsuits in the case.
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