- Collection:
- FBI Freedom of Information Act Collection
- Title:
- National States Rights Party
- Creator:
- United States. Federal Bureau of Investigation
- Date of Original:
- 1958/1976
- Subject:
- National States Rights Party (U.S.)
White supremacy movements--United States
White supremacy movements--Southern States
White supremacy movements--Tennessee
White supremacy movements--Georgia
Segregationists--Southern States
Antisemitism--United States
Antisemitism--Southern States
Antisemitism--Tennessee
Antisemitism--Georgia
Racism--United States
United States--Race relations
Hate groups--United States
Hate--United States
Civil rights--United States - People:
- Stoner, Jesse Benjamin, 1924-2005
Fields, Edward Reed - Location:
- United States, Alabama, Jefferson County, Birmingham, 33.52066, -86.80249
United States, Georgia, Cobb County, Marietta, 33.9526, -84.54993
United States, Tennessee, Knox County, Knoxville, 35.96064, -83.92074 - Medium:
- federal government records
- Type:
- Text
- Format:
- application/pdf
- Description:
- The National States Rights Party (NSRP) was formed in July of 1958, in Knoxville, Tennessee of segregationist and anti-Semitic elements. The NSRP is based on racism and bigotry, with blacks and Jews as its main hate targets. Jesse Benjamin Stoner was National Chairman and Edward Reed Fields was the editor of the group's newspaper, the Thunderbolt. Both Stoner and Fields threatened to shoot any FBI agents conducting investigation of them or NSRP. Investigation of the group terminated in April 1976, by the Attorney General who opined that the group did not constitute any danger to other living persons.
The party began to expand its operations and moved to new headquarters in Birmingham, Alabama in 1960. Supporters were soon kitted out in the party uniform of white shirts, black pants and tie and an armband bearing the thunderbolt version of the Wolfsangel. Thunderbolt itself gained a circulation of 15,000 in the late 1960s and the party became active in rallies across the United States, with events in Baltimore, Maryland in 1966 particularly notorious with five leading members imprisoned for inciting riots. The Federal Bureau of Investigation targeted the NSRP under its COINTELPRO-WHITE HATE program.
The party saw its influence decline in the 1970s as chief ideologue Fields began to devote more of his energies to the Ku Klux Klan. As a result, in April 1976 U.S. Attorney General Edward H. Levi concluded an FBI investigation into the group, after it was decided that they posed no threat.
The 1980s saw the terminal decline of the NSRP, beginning initially with Stoner being convicted for a bombing in 1980. Without his leadership the party descended into factionalism and in August 1983, Fields was expelled for spending too much time on the KKK. Without its two central figure the NSRP fell apart and by 1987 they had ceased to exist altogether. Taken from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_States'_Rights_Party
The Civil Rights Digital Library received support from a National Leadership Grant for Libraries awarded to the University of Georgia by the Institute of Museum and Library Services for the aggregation and enhancement of partner metadata. - Metadata URL:
- http://vault.fbi.gov/National%20States%20Rights%20Party
- Extent:
- 1 file (68 p.)
- Original Collection:
- Federal Bureau of Investigation records, Federal Bureau of Investigation
- Contributing Institution:
- United States. Federal Bureau of Investigation
- Rights:
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