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Article: Mixed Messages on Race Crimes: Vigor of White supremacist movement
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- Portland Skanner
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- August 7, 1996
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Angela Wilson
Portland Skanner
08-07-1996
Mixed Messages on Race Crimes: Vigor of White supremacist movement. renewed?
Has White supremacy activity in the Northwest increased or declined? That depends on who you ask.
Activists in the anti-racism movement say the June 16 cross burning in front of a Black man's house in Gresham is only one of many recent manifestations of White power operations in the Northwest. Police agencies, however, argue that the reported number of criminal acts - not organizing, pamphleteering or intimidation - has decreased.
Members of the Coalition for Human Dignity, a group that exposes assaults on civil rights and is the publisher of "Northwest Update," believe there ...