Conflicted Reponse To Missouri Highway Adopted By Neo-Nazis

KCUR | By Laura Ziegler

Published July 13, 2009 at 10:46 AM CDT

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Kansas City, MO – The Kansas City Jewish Community Relations Bureau is working with the office of Springfield, Missouri representative Sara Lampe to send a message that Southwest, Missouri does not embrace white separatists.

When neo-Nazis got recognition for picking up trash on the highway outside Springfield, the Kansas City Jewish community felt there should be a way to balance the publicity. The Nazis call themselves a group fighting for the civil rights of whites, so Kansas City Jews went to Rep. Lampe to find a way they could promote civil rights for all. KCUR's Laura Ziegler reports.

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Laura Ziegler

As Kansas City grows and diversifies, journalists need to listen to the people, to your challenges and successes..As engagement and solutions editor, I’ll make sure we’re framing stories based on what we hear from you, and we’ll partner with communities so our stories help us understand and connect to one another. Email me at lauraz@kcur.org.

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