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A festival atmosphere prevailed Saturday as an estimated 10,000 civil rights demonstrators at the state Capitol protested Republican Gov. Mike Foster’s order ending affirmative action in Louisiana. Leaders said it was the largest civil rights demonstration in the state’s history.
Meanwhile, a dozen or so blocks away, about 200 white rights counterdemonstrators held a rally at which David Duke, U.S. Senate candidate and former Ku Klux Klan leader, called for an end to affirmative action.
Foster’s executive order does not override any affirmative action program mandated by state or federal law.
