Founded in 1958 by members of America's first postwar domestic Nazi-inspired movement, the National States Rights Party developed both as a political protest movement and as a vehicle of violent resistance to the black civil rights movement of the 1950s and 1960s. Its acts of terrorism made international headlines and claimed multiple lives. Evidence suggests that Party members were involved in the assassinations of President John F. Kennedy and Dr. Martin Luther King. Officially dissolved in 1987, the National States Rights Party was revived in 2005 and one of its original founders remains active in racial agitation on the Internet.

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Founded by members of America's first postwar domestic Nazi movement, the National States Rights Party evolved on dual fronts as a political protest movement and a vehicle of violent resistance to the black civil rights movement of the 1950s and 1960s. Its acts of terrorism made international headlines and claimed multiple lives. Officially dissolved in 1987, it revived in 2005.
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Table of Contents

Acknowledgments
Preface
Author’s Note
Introduction: The American Reich
 1. Dragon’s Teeth
 2. “All deliberate speed”
 3. Birth of the Party
 4. Shock Waves
 5. Reading, Writing and Riots
 6. Mayhem
 7. “It happened like I told you”
 8. A “segregated superbomb”
 9. Dirty Wars
10. Ballots and Bullets
11. ­Un-American
12. Night Terrors
13. Dream Killers
14. Rumors of War
15. Under Fire
16. Last Gasp?
Appendix A. NSRP Constitution (1958)
Appendix B. “Why Vote States Rights” (1960)
Appendix C. NSRP Platform (1980)
Chapter Notes
Bibliography
Index
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Product details

ISBN
9781476666037
Published
2017-04-27
Publisher
McFarland & Co Inc; McFarland & Co Inc
Weight
472 gr
Height
254 mm
Width
178 mm
Thickness
14 mm
Age
P, 06
Language
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Heftet

Biographical note

The late Michael Newton, an award-winning author of numerous books on topics ranging from cryptozoology to civil rights and organized crime, lived in Indiana.