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Leaders Of The Ku Klux Klan
The national leader of the Ku Klux Klan is called either a Grand Wizard or an Imperial Wizard, depending on which KKK organization is being described. Second Ku Klux Klan *William Joseph Simmons (1880–1945) was the leader of the second Ku Klux Klan between 1915 and 1922. *James A. Colescott (1897–1950), Imperial Wizard, 1939-1944. Colescott dissolved the organization after it was hit with a $685,000 lien by the IRS. * Samuel Green (1889–1949), Imperial Wizard for 1 day. Other Ku Klux Klan movements * Jeff Berry (1968–2013) *Samuel Bowers (1924–2006) *David Duke (born 1950) * Virgil Lee Griffin (ca. 1944–2009) * Thomas Robb (born 1946) * David Wayne Hull (born 1962) *Johnny Lee Clary (1959–2014), Imperial Wizard in 1989 of the White Knights Organization but subsequently renounced his membership and became an ordained Christian minister speaking against racism and movements such as the Ku Klux Klan. *Ron Edwards, Imperial Wizard of the Imperial Klans of Amer ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ku Klux Klan
The Ku Klux Klan (), commonly shortened to the KKK or the Klan, is an American white supremacist, right-wing terrorist, and hate group whose primary targets are African Americans, Jews, Latinos, Asian Americans, Native Americans, and Catholics, as well as immigrants, leftists, homosexuals, Muslims,and abortion providers The Klan has existed in three distinct eras. Each has advocated extremist reactionary positions such as white nationalism, anti-immigration and—especially in later iterations—Nordicism, antisemitism, anti-Catholicism, Prohibition, right-wing populism, anti-communism, homophobia, Islamophobia, and anti-progressivism. The first Klan used terrorism—both physical assault and murder—against politically active Black people and their allies in the Southern United States in the late 1860s. The third Klan used murders and bombings from the late 1940s to the early 1960s to achieve its aims. All three movements have called for the "purification" of Ame ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Robert Shelton (Ku Klux Klan)
Robert Marvin Shelton (June 12, 1929 – March 17, 2003) was a former car-tire salesman and printer who became nationally famous as the Imperial Wizard of United Klans of America (UKA), a Ku Klux Klan group. Career and KKK activities Shelton was a factory worker and a car-tire salesman. He also owned a printing business, with an office on Union Boulevard. In the late 1960s, Shelton ran for Police Commissioner in Tuscaloosa, Alabama. He finished in fifth place. Following the death of Imperial Wizard Eldon Edwards, the original KKK organization began to fracture during the leadership of Imperial Wizard Roy Davis during the 1960s. Shelton started a new KKK organization, the United Klans of America in an effort to unite the various KKK factions, and served as the UKA leader starting in 1961. which peaked with an estimated 30,000 members. By 1965, Shelton's organization had outgrown the other KKK factions to become the largest in the United States, according to the FBI. In 1966 Sh ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
White Aryan Resistance
White Aryan Resistance (WAR) is a White supremacy, white supremacist and Neo-Nazism, neo-Nazi organization in the United States which was founded and formerly led by former Ku Klux Klan Grand Dragon Tom Metzger. It is based in Warsaw, Indiana, and it is also incorporated as a business. In 1993, the group expanded into Canada in what they dubbed operation Maple leaf. It holds views that are self-described as Racism, racist, as can be seen in its website sections which are titled "Racist Jokes" and "Racist Videos," as well as in the tagline for its newspaper ''The Insurgent'': "the most racist newspaper on Earth." WAR uses the slogan "White Revolution is the Only Solution". History Metzger's first group was known as the White Brotherhood, which he led in the mid-1970s until he joined David Duke's Ku Klux Klan, Knights of the Ku Klux Klan in 1975. By 1979 he had risen to the rank of Grand Dragon of the California realm. During these years the California realm conducted unofficia ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tom Metzger
Thomas Linton Metzger (April 9, 1938 – November 4, 2020) was an American White supremacy, white supremacist, Neo-Nazism, neo-Nazi White power skinhead, skinhead leader and Ku Klux Klan, Klansman. He founded White Aryan Resistance (WAR), a neo-nazi organization, in 1983. He was a Grand Wizard of the Ku Klux Klan in the 1970s. Metzger voiced strong opposition to immigration to the United States, and was an advocate of the Third Position. He was incarcerated in Los Angeles County, California, and Toronto, Ontario, and was the subject of several lawsuits and government inquiries. He, his son, and WAR were fined $12 million as a result of the murder of Mulugeta Seraw, 28, an Ethiopian student, by skinheads in Portland, Oregon, affiliated with WAR. Early life Metzger was born and raised in Indiana. He served in the U.S. Army from 1961 until 1964 when he moved to Southern California to work in the electronics industry. For a short time, he was a member of the Right-wing politics, right ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
North Carolina
North Carolina () is a state in the Southeastern region of the United States. The state is the 28th largest and 9th-most populous of the United States. It is bordered by Virginia to the north, the Atlantic Ocean to the east, Georgia and South Carolina to the south, and Tennessee to the west. In the 2020 census, the state had a population of 10,439,388. Raleigh is the state's capital and Charlotte is its largest city. The Charlotte metropolitan area, with a population of 2,595,027 in 2020, is the most-populous metropolitan area in North Carolina, the 21st-most populous in the United States, and the largest banking center in the nation after New York City. The Raleigh-Durham-Cary combined statistical area is the second-largest metropolitan area in the state and 32nd-most populous in the United States, with a population of 2,043,867 in 2020, and is home to the largest research park in the United States, Research Triangle Park. The earliest evidence of human occupation i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bob Jones (Grand Dragon)
James Robertson "Bob" Jones (July 26, 1929 – April 16, 1989) was an American white supremacist political activist who was active in the Ku Klux Klan in the 1950s and 1960s. He was Grand Dragon of the North Carolina Knights of the Ku Klux Klan from 1963 until 1969, when he was sent to prison for contempt of Congress. Early life Jones was born on July 26, 1929, in Salisbury, North Carolina. His father was a railroad worker and had been a member of the Ku Klux Klan, an American white supremacist organization, in the 1920s. His mother was in the Klan's Ladies Auxiliary. After dropping out of high school, Jones enlisted in the United States Navy. He was discharged after refusing to salute a black officer. He subsequently worked in various jobs, including as a bricklayer and salesman for lightning rods. Klan leadership Jones joined the U.S. Klans organization in 1954, but later quit and joined the rival United Klans of America. In August 1963, Jones was elected as the Grand Dragon of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Samuel Roper (Ku Klux Klan)
Samuel W. Roper (April 10, 1895 – March 1, 1986) was an American law enforcement official and Imperial Wizard of the Ku Klux Klan (KKK). Roper was an Atlanta, Georgia police officer and the second Director of the Georgia Bureau of Investigation. After leaving law enforcement in 1949, Roper succeeded Samuel Green as Imperial Wizard of the KKK, and held that position until 1950.Staff report (August 28, 1949). Ex-Chief of Georgia G-men is new head of Ku Klux Klan. ''Chicago Tribune'' His successor was Eldon Edwards.Staff report (March 4, 1986). Samuel W. Roper, 90, was second director of GBI in early 1940s. ''Atlanta Journal-Constitution'' He has also been directly implicated in the September 12, 1936 lynching and murder of Thomas Finch in Atlanta, Georgia. Roper moved to Florida in 1972 and was a resident of Chiefland, Florida at the time of his death. He died of kidney failure at the Veterans Administration Hospital in Gainesville, Florida Gainesville is the county sea ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Roy Elonzo Davis
Roy Elonzo Davis (April 24, 1890 - August 12, 1966) was a leader and founding member of the 1915 Ku Klux Klan. Davis was Second Degree (second in command) of the KKK under William J. Simmons and later became National Imperial Wizard (leader) of the Original Knights of the Ku Klux Klan. He worked closely with Simmons, and was a coauthor of the 1921 KKK constitution, bylaws and rituals. Davis spent decades as a KKK recruiter, at one point being named "Royal Ambassador" and an "Official Spokesperson" of the KKK by Simmons. Davis and Simmons were both expelled from the KKK in 1923 by Hiram Wesley Evans, who had ousted Simmons as leader. Simmons started the Knights of the Flaming Sword branch of the KKK and with Davis's help retained the loyalty of many KKK members. Davis was later reappointed second in command of the national KKK organization by Imperial Wizard Eldon Edwards, a position he held until being elected national leader by 1959. Davis used religious meetings and revivals as ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Eldon Edwards
Eldon Lee Edwards (June 8, 1909 – August 1, 1960) was an American Ku Klux Klan leader. Biography Edwards was an automobile paint sprayer from Atlanta, Georgia, and rebuilt the Klan beginning in 1953. In his book ''The Informant: The FBI, the Ku Klux Klan, and the Murder of Viola Liuzzo'', Gary May notes that Edwards became prominent at a time when the Klan was splintered into different local groups. Edwards succeeded Samuel Roper and was elected leader of the third KKK which was reestablished at Stone Mountain by Samuel Green in 1946, the successor of the second KKK.Staff report (March 4, 1986). Samuel W. Roper, 90, was second director of GBI in early 1940s. ''Atlanta Journal-Constitution'' In 1955, Edwards created his own organization, "U.S. Klans, Knights of the Ku Klux Klan", and established a 15,000 strong following in nine south eastern American states. [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
White Nationalist
White nationalism is a type of racial nationalism or pan-nationalism which espouses the belief that white people are a raceHeidi Beirich and Kevin Hicks. "Chapter 7: White nationalism in America". In Perry, Barbara. ''Hate Crimes''. Greenwood Publishing, 2009. pp.114–115 and seeks to develop and maintain a white racial and national identity."White Nationalism, Explained" . 21 November 2016. "White nationalism, he said, is the belief that national identity should be built around white ethnicity, and that white people should therefore maintain both a demographic majority and dominance of the nation’s culture and public life.... w ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Don Black (white Nationalist)
Stephen Donald Black"UK 'least wanted' list published" BBC News, May 5, 2009. Retrieved on 2009-05-06. (born July 28, 1953) is an American . He is the founder and of the anti-Semitic, , white supremacist, , homophobic, Islamophobic, and racist [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bill Wilkinson (KKK)
William or Bill Wilkinson may refer to: *William Alexander Wilkinson (1892–1983), Australian born British soldier and cricketer *William Arthur Wilkinson (1795–1865), British Member of Parliament (MP) for Lambeth 1852–57 *William Wilkinson (diplomat) (died 1836), British Consul to Wallachia and Moldavia *William Wilkinson (architect) (1819–1901), Gothic Revival architect who practised in Oxford * William Cleaver Wilkinson (1833–1920), American Baptist minister and professor *William Henry Wilkinson (1858–1930), British Sinologist who served as Consul-General for H.B.M in China and Korea in the 19th century *William Henry Wilkinson (trade unionist) (1850–1906), British trade union leader * William Wilkinson (New South Wales politician) (1858–1946), Australian politician and doctor * William Wilkinson (cricketer, born 1857) (1857–1946), Australian-born physician and cricketer who played in England * William Wilkinson (cricketer, born 1859) (1859–1940), English crick ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
