Nathanael Gabler/The Oxford Eagle, via Associated Press
OXFORD, Miss. — Eight University of Mississippi men’s basketball players knelt during the national anthem on Saturday in response to a pro-Confederate rally taking place on their campus.
Minutes before the game against Georgia, both teams formed lines for the anthem. As soon as “The Star-Spangled Banner” began, six players from the Rebels took a knee and bowed. Toward the end of the anthem, two teammates joined them.
The pro-Confederate demonstration was led by out-of-state protesters a few hundred feet from the arena.
In the aftermath of violence at a similar rally in Charlottesville, Va.