6.22.14 Not In Our Town

Prairie Lights: Recalling a key chapter in battle against hate
lastbestnews.com

Thank you to Ed Kemmick for bringing up this chapter of Billings' history. 
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I had just moved to Billings and started writing an anti-bias children's literature booklet for the Billings Coalition for Human Rights, when leaders, news agencies and our citizens stood up to a series of hate-based activities, spawning what is now the national organization, Not In Our Town, which is having it's twentieth anniversary conference back in Billings this weekend. Our city council is now wrestling with a nondiscrimination ordinance and, again, these entities are standing up and urging these officials to do the right thing.