Editing Oroville, California (section)

===Hate groups===
[[Hate group]]s began appearing in Oroville media stories beginning in 1976 with a [[neo-Nazi]] husband and wife couple killed in a shootout. In 1980, members of the [[American Nazi Party]] moved to Oroville from [[Tracy, California]], to re-organize as Chico Area National Socialists.<ref name=Gascoyne2004/><ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.ttownmedia.com/tracy_press/our_town/the-faded-history-of-tracy-neofascists/article_7207338c-8387-11e7-b4f6-3f61a6846a65.html |title=The faded history of Tracy neofascists |last=Matthews |first=Sam |date=August 18, 2017 |website=Tracy Press |access-date=October 1, 2022}}</ref> In September 1982, 17-year-old Joseph Hoover was murdered by his Nazi colleagues after he told police he helped spread anti-Black hate literature at Oroville High School.<ref name=Arrested/> One thousand people marched in Oroville in protest of Nazi and [[Ku Klux Klan]] activity on December 11, 1982.<ref>[https://dl.library.ucla.edu/islandora/object/edu.ucla.library.specialCollections.latimes:2255 "Demonstration march against racism, Ku Klux Klan and Neo-Nazism in Oroville, Calif., 1982 "]. ''[[Los Angeles Times]]'' photograph collection at UCLA.</ref> Local Nazi leader Perry "Red" Wartham was convicted of Hoover's murder and sentenced to 27 years, and two more male high school–age Nazi recruits were convicted as accessories to murder.<ref name=Arrested>{{cite news |url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=2245&dat=19821108&id=VJszAAAAIBAJ&sjid=rTIHAAAAIBAJ&pg=6121,863017&hl=en |title=Oroville Nazi Official arrested |newspaper=[[Lodi News Sentinel]] |agency=UPI |date=November 8, 1982 |access-date=February 23, 2023}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.upi.com/Archives/1983/06/17/Neo-Nazi-organizer-Perry-Red-Warthan-convicted-of-killing-a/7068424670400/ |title=Neo-Nazi organizer Perry 'Red' Warthan convicted |newspaper=[[United Press International]] |date=June 17, 1983 |access-date=February 23, 2023}}</ref> In 2016, an Oroville man was found spreading Nazi hate messages in Sacramento.<ref>{{cite news |last=Heise |first=Sarah |url=https://www.kcra.com/article/oroville-man-accused-of-distributing-hate-speech-fliers-arrested/6428559 |title=Oroville man accused of distributing hate-speech fliers arrested |date=May 10, 2016 |newspaper=[[KCRA]] |access-date=February 23, 2023}}</ref> In January 2004, a [[white power]] publication was distributed in the [[Kelly Ridge]] area south of Oroville.<ref name=Gascoyne2004>{{cite news |url=https://www.newsreview.com/chico/content/happy-mlk-day/28847/ |title=Happy MLK Day: Local rights activist denounces racist newspaper, fliers distributed in Oroville |date=January 22, 2004 |last=Gascoyne |first=Tom |newspaper=Chico News & Review |access-date=February 23, 2023}}</ref>