• Chip Berlet's non-fiction book Clouds Blur the Rainbow: The Other Side of New Alliance Party was referenced in a 1993 United States Federal Court lawsuit involving the FBI?

Facts on topics related to Chip Berlet

Ku Klux Klan

• African-American Lemuel A. Penn, murdered by the Ku Klux Klan on suspicion of being a civil rights activist, was actually a career soldier and Bronze Star recipient?
• Hiram Wesley Evans (pictured), the second Imperial Wizard of the "second" Ku Klux Klan, boasted of having helped re-elect Calvin Coolidge as U.S. President?
• Nathan Bedford Forrest High School in Jacksonville, Florida is only one of two schools left in the United States named after the first Grand Wizard of the Ku Klux Klan?
• Roy Frankhouser, a Ku Klux Klan Grand Dragon, was arrested at least 142 times?
• W. Horace Carter won a 1953 Pulitzer Prize for anti-KKK reporting, "waged on their own doorstep at the risk of economic loss and personal danger" that led to the conviction of over 100 Klansmen?
• A. Roswell Thompson, a taxi operator and a figure in the Ku Klux Klan, ran for governor of Louisiana in 1959, 32 years before David Duke waged his more publicized race in 1991?
• South Carolina's Redneck Shop, which sells Ku Klux Klan memorabilia, is located in a building owned by a black Baptist pastor?
• after serving as a Union Army general during the American Civil War, Joseph Alexander Cooper was enlisted to suppress Ku Klux Klan disturbances in Tennessee?
• in 1967 the Ku Klux Klan bombed both Beth Israel synagogue of Jackson, Mississippi and the house of its rabbi?
• in the 1950s, the names and telephone numbers of women who attended the integrated meetings of civil rights activist Virginia Foster Durr were published in a Ku Klux Klan magazine?

Antisemitism

• Romanian writer Alexandru Odobescu viewed antisemites preventing linguist Lazăr Şăineanu from obtaining naturalization as "cannibals" devouring "a civilized man"?
• Edvard Welle-Strand, father of the anti-Nazi resistance fighter Erling Welle-Strand, was an anti-Semitic writer especially active in the 1910s and 1920s?
• the Romanian fascist politician Ion Sân-Giorgiu at first considered Antisemitism to be "an act of poverty of a failed intellectual", but soon changed his position calling Jews a "national cancer"?
• the Romanian magazine Sămănătorul promoted pastoral imagery, antisemitic messages, and its own branch of Symbolist poetry?

Fascism

• WWI vet and Tour de France winner Ottavio Bottecchia was killed by either fascists or an angry farmer?
• Arthur Fonjallaz was expelled from the Heimatwehr, a fascist organization in Switzerland, because he advocated an annexation by Italy?
• José Ortega Spottorno established the now-bestselling Spanish newspaper El Pais to advance liberal values at a time when the country was undergoing a painful transition from fascism to democracy?
• The Mass Psychology of Fascism, a book written by Wilhelm Reich in 1933, blamed sexual repression for the rise of fascism?
• French politician Jean Fontenoy, initially a communist, later became a fascist?
• after the foundation of the German Democratic Republic, Nazi General Arno von Lenski was formally acknowledged as a "Victim of Fascism" in 1949?
• during the Great Depression, the New Order of Cincinnatus, accused by its opponents of fascist tendencies, successfully placed three candidates on the Seattle City Council?
• in the 1930s, Australia was home to a paramilitary Fascist organization called the New Guard?
• soon after the annexation of Albania in 1939 Italian fascists set up the Albanian Lictor Youth, a branch of the Italian fascist youth movement?
• the European fascist alliance New European Order split in 1955 due to a dispute over the issue of whether South Tyrol should be Italian or Austrian?

Nazism

• Belgian senator Baron Jacques Brotchi survived World War II as a child when his Jewish family was hidden from the Nazis by a Belgian family in Comblain-au-Pont?
• Ukrainian Nazis have been blamed for the 1944 Huta Pieniacka massacre of Polish civilians?
• Ponary massacre lasted for 3 years as 100,000 Jews, Poles and Russians were murdered by the Nazis and their collaborators near Vilnius?
• Olympic pair skating champions Andrée Brunet and Pierre Brunet refused to defend their title at the 1936 Winter Olympics because Nazi Germany was hosting the Games?
• during World War II, Pierre-Marie Cardinal Gerlier asked that religious orders take Jewish children into hiding to avoid Nazi death camps?
• in spite of hesitations due to the growing influence of Nazism in Germany, the International Federation of Trade Unions moved its headquarters to Berlin in 1931?
• publication of comics in Hungary largely stopped during World War II due to Nazi pressure?
• renowned Holocaust scholar Robert Jan van Pelt says that the first Holocaust deniers were the Nazis themselves?
• the King Jagiello Monument (pictured) in Central Park, New York, was forced to remain in the United States after the Nazi invasion of Poland made its return from the 1939 New York World's Fair impossible?
• the men's adventure genre of pulp magazine often featured damsels in distress menaced by Nazis?

LaRouche movement

• Kesha Rogers, who won the 2010 Democratic primary for Texas's 22nd congressional district, is a follower of the LaRouche movement and has called for the impeachment of President Barack Obama?

Neo-Nazism

• neo-Nazi politician and member of the Bundestag Fritz Rössler, who resembled Adolf Hitler, had a habit of attending parliament drunk?
• Temple Beth Israel in Eugene, Oregon was attacked by neo-Nazi members of the Volksfront in 1994 and 2002?
• Mevlüde Genç, a Turk living in Germany who had lost five of her family members to Neo-Nazi violence in the Solingen arson attack of 1993, went on to advocate tolerance between Turks and Germans?
• in 2003, German authorities foiled a plot by a neo-Nazi group to set off a bomb at the Ohel Jakob synagogue cornerstone ceremony?
• in late 1992, the German Federal Ministry of the Interior banned the neo-Nazi groups German Alternative (DA), Nationalist Front (NF), German Comradeship Alliance (DKB), and the National Offensive (NO) all within a month?

Racism

• Barzillai Quaife has been described both as "New Zealand's first public anti-racist" and "Australia's first philosopher"?
• Rajo Jack, one of the first African-American racecar drivers, pretended to be Portuguese to avoid racism?
• Risley C. Triche, originally a segregationist member of the Louisiana House of Representatives, testified years later to past racism in his state's public assistance programs?
• a noose hanging beside a hole at the Oak Tree Golf Club in Oklahoma was donated symbolically by a frustrated golfer, but was removed because of perceived racist undertones?
• although Gather Together in My Name, the second book in Maya Angelou's six autobiographies, was not as critically acclaimed as the first one, it continues the same themes of racism and sexism?
• in 2008, a member of the Dallas County, Texas, county commission claimed that the term black hole, as used in astronomy, was racist?
• the 1939 planned encyclical of Pope Pius XI, Humani Generis Unitas, which condemned racism and persecution of Jews, became known as "The Hidden Encyclical" or "The Lost Encyclical," because it was never promulgated?
• the 2001 documentary film Scottsboro: An American Tragedy retold the story of the Scottsboro Boys, one of the most controversial courtroom pursuits of racism in U.S. history?
• the death of the chimpanzee Travis inspired a New York Post cartoon that was later called racist?