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The Northern California town where lynchings were a point of pride, until they weren't


The Northern California town where lynchings were a point of pride, until they weren t
Dylan Svoboda
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Lizzie DuBose, 27, poses for a photo in a wooded area near a friend s home.Jungho Kim/Jungho Kim/Special to SFGATE
On a Tuesday evening in April, Lizzie Dubose, a 27-year-old African American college student from Placerville, California, tuned into the small Gold Rush town’s City Council meeting via Zoom, as she had every two weeks since last June, and patiently waited her turn to speak. DuBose listened as City Council members approved a pavement project, considered sending a letter opposing a state bill and confirmed appointees to its economic advisory committee. By 6 p.m., what she and hundreds of others on the virtual call had been waiting for finally came before the council: the future of Placerville’s controversial rough-and-tumble identity. Up first: its city logo. ....

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No, The Proud Boys aren't holding a Marine Corps Toys for Tots drive in Pittsburgh this week. But they tried.


Marines collect toys and donations for the Toys for Tots campaign in 2013. (Mark Duncan/Associated Press)
A Pittsburgh breakfast restaurant had planned to hold a Toys for Tots event alongside the far-right extremist group Proud Boys this week.
But the event, scheduled to be held at the Crack’d Egg restaurant in the Brentwood borough, was without permission of the Marine Corps-affiliated charity.
When Toys for Tots, started by a Marine reservist in 1947, found out about the unsanctioned event, it immediately distanced itself, a spokesman from the Toys for Tots organization confirmed.
“To be clear, the Proud Boys are in no way affiliated with the Marine Toys for Tots Foundation or the Marine Corps Reserve Toys for Tots Program, and their use of the TOYS FOR TOTS name and logo is unauthorized and violates federal and state trademark laws,” Ted Silvester, a retired Marine colonel and spokesman for Toys for Tots, told Marine Corps times in an email. ....

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