
                         Roanoke Times
                 Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.

DATE: TUESDAY, December 14, 1993                   TAG: 9312140125
SECTION: NATL/INTL                    PAGE: A4   EDITION: METRO 
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DATELINE: MONTGOMERY, ALA.                                LENGTH: Short

MORE BLACKS KILLING WHITES, GROUP REPORTS

A group that monitors race-related killings says the cases in which blacks are charged with killing whites are increasing dramatically, but critics warn against jumping to conclusions.

Klanwatch founder Morris Dees said Monday that there has been a "shocking reversal' in race-related killings since the early 1980s, when most hate crimes were committed in the South by whites against blacks.

In the last three years, Klanwatch has recorded 58 race-related murders nationwide, with blacks charged in 27 of them, or 46 percent. In the two years before that, Klanwatch says only one black was charged among 13 hate-crime murder cases, or about 8 percent.

Dees also is also president of the Southern Poverty Law Center in Montgomery, which has successfully sued members of the Ku Klux Klan and White Aryan Resistance over hate crimes against blacks. - Associated Press

Keywords:
FATALITY

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