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Hate groups fragmented By KATHY HOKE Alamance Bureau Although withered by recent convictions of some leaders, groups espousing racial hatred and violence continue to find North Carolina fertile ground for their activities. People who monitor hate groups say North Carolina continues to hold the dubious distinction as a national leader in racial violence and intimidation, along with Florida and Georgia. "Until last summer, North Carolina was probably the state with the most Klan activity," said Pat Clark, director of Klanwatch, a branch of the Southern Poverty Law Center in Montgomery, Ala. In 1986, federal prosecutors won convictions of Glenn and Hate group and racist acts in North Carolina Marches illegal and rallies racist acts 1985 1986 1987 33 54 43 31 37 36 Source: North Carolinians Against Racist and Religious Violence, Durham Stephen Miller, unrelated former leaders of the defunct White Patriot Party, North Carolina's most visible racist group. The Millers, under a federal court order not to engage in paramilitary training, were convicted of violating the court order. Their convictions contributed to a drop in hate-group activity among "grassroots" racists, including various factions of the Ku Klux Klan, Clark said. "There are some people who say the Klan is just an anachronism — that it's just a group of people playing dress-up," Clark said. "Unfortunately, they have done enough intimidation and violent activity that you just can't view them as a group of folks who are trying to find a place to fit in." This summer, many Greensboro residents didn't think a Klan march proposed for downtown fit in with the city's self-image. Outraged that Greensboro officials would let the Klan march, in three days opponents gathered 4,000 signatures on petitions seeking to revoke the parade permit. But at numerous doorsteps, they found both black and white people who — while opposed to the Klan — refused to sign their names or list but still active Tina Gerson/News & Record names their addresses. "There's a lot of fear Opponents failed to prevent Klan from marching in Greensboro in June about the Klan," said Al- C. Miller ma Adams, a Bennett Col lege professor and Greensboro City Council member who helped organize the drive. "I guess they were afraid the petition would get into the wrong hands." The petition didn't keep the Klan from marching June 7 — its first major public demonstration in Greensboro since a November 1979 confrontation between Klansmen, Nazis and the Communist Workers Party left five people dead.
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Full text | Hate groups fragmented By KATHY HOKE Alamance Bureau Although withered by recent convictions of some leaders, groups espousing racial hatred and violence continue to find North Carolina fertile ground for their activities. People who monitor hate groups say North Carolina continues to hold the dubious distinction as a national leader in racial violence and intimidation, along with Florida and Georgia. "Until last summer, North Carolina was probably the state with the most Klan activity," said Pat Clark, director of Klanwatch, a branch of the Southern Poverty Law Center in Montgomery, Ala. In 1986, federal prosecutors won convictions of Glenn and Hate group and racist acts in North Carolina Marches illegal and rallies racist acts 1985 1986 1987 33 54 43 31 37 36 Source: North Carolinians Against Racist and Religious Violence, Durham Stephen Miller, unrelated former leaders of the defunct White Patriot Party, North Carolina's most visible racist group. The Millers, under a federal court order not to engage in paramilitary training, were convicted of violating the court order. Their convictions contributed to a drop in hate-group activity among "grassroots" racists, including various factions of the Ku Klux Klan, Clark said. "There are some people who say the Klan is just an anachronism — that it's just a group of people playing dress-up," Clark said. "Unfortunately, they have done enough intimidation and violent activity that you just can't view them as a group of folks who are trying to find a place to fit in." This summer, many Greensboro residents didn't think a Klan march proposed for downtown fit in with the city's self-image. Outraged that Greensboro officials would let the Klan march, in three days opponents gathered 4,000 signatures on petitions seeking to revoke the parade permit. But at numerous doorsteps, they found both black and white people who — while opposed to the Klan — refused to sign their names or list but still active Tina Gerson/News & Record names their addresses. "There's a lot of fear Opponents failed to prevent Klan from marching in Greensboro in June about the Klan," said Al- C. Miller ma Adams, a Bennett Col lege professor and Greensboro City Council member who helped organize the drive. "I guess they were afraid the petition would get into the wrong hands." The petition didn't keep the Klan from marching June 7 — its first major public demonstration in Greensboro since a November 1979 confrontation between Klansmen, Nazis and the Communist Workers Party left five people dead. |