Major Events
- May 1998 - CCIR's billboard controversy
("Barbara Coe")
Anti-Mexicans
- Dec.8.2001 - "In Defense of America" rally with Voice of Citizens Together
- Turned into a brawl
- Refer to them as "savages"
- 1998 - Anti-immigration rally hosted by Council of Conservative Citizens
- Mexican Conspiracy
- Coe claimed to have exposed "Plan de Aztlan"
(SPLC)
Coe's Hate Begins
1991 - Orange County Social Services Office
Pyramid of Hate
"I walked into this monstrous room full of people, babies and little children all over the place, and I realized nobody was speaking English. I was overwhelmed with this feeling: 'Where am I? What's happened here?'"
(Hatewatch Staff)
Works Cited
Coe's Passing
Hero or not?
(Kopetman)
Barbara Coe
- Passed away: August 31, 2013 due to lung cancer
- “She was, in the truest sense, an American patriot,” said U.S. Rep. Dana Rohrabacher, R-Costa Mesa.
- "Vitriolic, conspiracy-minded and just plain mean"
- Coe & the CCIR fall under Civil Hate through Acts of Discrimination
- Surpass Acts of Bias and Acts of Prejudice
(Kopetman)
(Hatewatch Staff)
("Barbara Coe")
California Coalition for Immigration Reform (CCIR)
“Barbara Coe.” SPLC. SPLC, n.d. Web. 22 Jan. 2014. http://www.splcenter.org/get-informed/intelligence-files/profiles/barbara-coe
“California Coalition for Immigration Reform.” SPLC. SPLC, n.d. Web. 22 Jan. 2014. http://www.splcenter.org/get-informed/intelligence-files/groups/california-coalition-for-immigration-reform
Hatewatch Staff. “Barbara Coe, Racist Nativist Leader, Dies in California.” SPLC. SPLC, 6 Sept. 2013. Web. 22 Jan. 2014. http://www.splcenter.org/blog/2013/09/06/barbara-coe-racist-nativist-leader-dies-in-california/
Kopetman, Roxana. “Barbara Coe remembered for her fighting spirit.” Orange County Register. Orange County Register, 19 Oct. 2013. Web. 22 Jan. 2014. http://www.ocregister.com/articles/coe-532057-vuono-people.html
- Founded: 1994
- Location: Huntington Beach, CA
- Ideology: Anti-Immigrant
- Purpose: Serve as co-sponsor for California's Proposition 187
- Born: 1934 on Sioux reservation in South Dakota
- Occupation: Crime analyst for Anaheim Police Department
- Dismissed in 1994
(SPLC)
(CCIR)
California Coalition for Immigration Reform
by Colleen Lee