48 hours in Charlottesville

A visual timeline of Charlottesville's harrowing weekend of violence

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Overview of protest in Charlottesville, Virginia.
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White supremacists march with tiki torches through the University of Virginia campus in Charlottesville, Virginia.
(Image credit: (Zach D Roberts/NurPhoto/Sipa USA/Newscom)Friday night, hundreds of white nationalists carrying lit tiki torches marched through the University of Virginia campus in Charlottesville. As they)

Virginia state troopers stand under a statue of Robert E. Lee before a "Unite the Right" rally in Charlottesville.
(Image credit: (REUTERS/Joshua Roberts)The "Unite the Right" rally was organized in protest of the slated removed of the statue of Confederate General Robert E. Lee in Emancipation Park. The event was to st)

Counter-protesters and clergy walk near Emancipation Park in downtown Charlottesville.
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Hundreds of white nationalists, neo-Nazis, and members of the "alt-right" march towards Emancipation Park in Charlottesville. Counter-protesters attempt to block the entrance.
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A militia member stands in front of clergy during the rally in Charlottesville.
(Image credit: (REUTERS/Joshua Roberts)Thousands of "Unite the Right" demonstrators, many of whom were wearing Nazi and white supremacist paraphernalia, began gathering around the Lee statue hours earlier t)

Protesters and counter-protesters face off at the entrance to Emancipation Park.
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A white nationalist protester makes a slashing motion across his throat toward counter-protesters in Charlottesville.
(Image credit: (Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)Tensions and shouting quickly escalated into all-out brawls. White nationalists charged a chain of counter-protesters standing near the entrance of the park. Pr)

Members of a white nationalist group clash with counter-protesters in Charlottesville.
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A protester leaps over barricades inside Emancipation Park.
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Militia with body armor and combat weapons evacuate pepper-sprayed comrades.
(Image credit: (Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)At 1:45 p.m. a car, allegedly driven by James Alex Fields Jr., 20, plowed into a group of peaceful protesters. One person — Heather Heyer, 32, a local paralegal)

A car plows into a throng of protesters, injuring 19 and killing one, in Charlottesville.
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Medics tend to an injured woman in Charlottesville.
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A Virginia State Police officer in riot gear keeps watch from the top of an armored vehicle in Charlottesville.
(Image credit: (Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)On Saturday afternoon, President Trump made a statement denouncing the violence and bigotry "on many sides" without specifically condemning white supremacists o)

A stranger comforts a man as he kneels by a memorial for a friend injured in the car attack in Charlottesville.
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Members of Mt. Zion First African Baptist Church pray during Sunday services the morning after the attack on counter-protesters in Charlottesville.
(Image credit: (REUTERS/Jim Bourg)On Sunday morning, church services across the city evoked sentiments of love during times of hate, while state police in riot gear stationed themselves around the unusually)

Virginia Gov. Terry McAuliffe embraces worshipers after speaking at the First Baptist Church in Charlottesville.
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A makeshift memorial lies for victim Heather Heyer in Charlottesville.
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People gather on the spot where Heyer was killed in Charlottesville.
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Lauren Hansen
Lauren Hansen

Lauren Hansen produces The Week’s podcasts and videos and edits the photo blog, Captured. She also manages the production of the magazine's iPad app. A graduate of Kenyon College and Northwestern University, she previously worked at the BBC and Frontline. She knows a thing or two about pretty pictures and cute puppies, both of which she tweets about @mylaurenhansen.