The National States Rights party, based in Birmingham and claiming to be the third largest party in the country, was depicted here today as promoting “a home-grown version of Nazi racism” and as advocating “red-neck anti-Semitism, anti-Negroism and a strong undercurrent of clan-type anti-Catholicism.”
An article in the June issue of “Progressive” magazine said that the party claimed to have units in 38 states, many of them in large cities, including Chicago, New York, Los Angeles, Atlanta, Washington and Jacksonville, Fla. The party, according to the article, uses a uniform reminiscent of German storm troopers and the symbol of the lightning bolt used by the Hitler Youth Movement.
Last year, the article charged, the National States Rights party’s newspapers reprinted the May 1934 issue of Julius Streicher’s anti-Semitic Nazi publication, Der Stuermer. The article warned that the group could not be considered “harmless crackpots” as long as “they can escalate hate into violence.”
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