The Nation - News from March 21, 1988
About 250 chanting demonstrators marched in Poughkeepsie, N.Y., to protest the handling of the case of Tawana Brawley, a black teen-ager who contends she was raped by six white men. At the head of the marchers, most of them black women, walked Lenora Fulani, sole candidate for the presidential nomination of the leftist New Alliance Party, which organized the rally. The crowd marched peacefully from a predominantly black neighborhood to a downtown hotel. Brawley, a 16-year-old resident of the Dutchess County village of Wappingers Falls, N.Y., was found dazed and incoherent last Nov. 28, smeared with feces and with obscenities scrawled on her body.
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