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Bill Goring white supremacist organizations collection

 Collection
Identifier: 8717

Content Description

Collection includes: 46 Newsletters and Bulletins from the Aryan Knights of the Ku Klux Klan, including 30 issues of "Here It Is"(1960-63), all stamped with the return address of Horace Sherman Miller of Waco Texas, founder of the Aryan Knights, and 16 issues of another of Miller’s newsletters entitled The "Aryan Views + White Folks News" (1963); Goring’s correspondence with radio announcer and Klan member Wally Butterworth (6 ALS, 1 TLS, 1964) along with associated pamphlets and bulletins; Correspondence with John Patler, a captain in the American Nazi Party and the editor and cartoonist for the party's magazine, "Stormtrooper", along with flyers, leaflets and newsletters, including the first three issues of "Kill! Magazine" [all published] edited by Patler; materials from the National Renaissance Party (a neo-fascist group founded in 1949), including 27 issues of the "National Renaissance Bulletin," news clippings, and correspondence between Goring and party members; Correspondence between Goring and Danny Pezze of the American Survival Party with pamphlet and newsletter issues; material relating to Robert J. Burros, a chief aide to James H. Madole, leader of the neo-Nazi National Renaissance Party.

Dates

  • 1962 - 1970

Creator

Biographical / Historical

While a student at Columbia University in the 1960s, Bill Goring infiltrated fascist and neo-nazi groups to learn about their operations. As a radical anarchist and a member of several Columbia left-leaning and progressive student groups, Goring feigned sympathy and interest in order to gather correspondence, leaflets, newsletters, agendas, and other information circulated among the membership of such groups. Goring also conducted some research on satanist and occult groups.

Extent

.3 cubic feet.

1 folders.

Language of Materials

English

Abstract

Collection includes: 46 Newsletters and Bulletins from the Aryan Knights of the Ku Klux Klan, including 30 issues of "Here It Is"(1960-63), all stamped with the return address of Horace Sherman Miller of Waco Texas, founder of the Aryan Knights, and 16 issues of another of Miller’s newsletters entitled The "Aryan Views + White Folks News" (1963); Goring’s correspondence with radio announcer and Klan member Wally Butterworth (6 ALS, 1 TLS, 1964) along with associated pamphlets and bulletins; Correspondence with John Patler, a captain in the American Nazi Party and the editor and cartoonist for the party's magazine, "Stormtrooper", along with flyers, leaflets and newsletters, including the first three issues of "Kill! Magazine" [all published] edited by Patler; materials from the National Renaissance Party (a neo-fascist group founded in 1949), including 27 issues of the "National Renaissance Bulletin," news clippings, and correspondence between Goring and party members; Correspondence between Goring and Danny Pezze of the American Survival Party with pamphlet and newsletter issues; material relating to Robert J. Burros, a chief aide to James H. Madole, leader of the neo-Nazi National Renaissance Party.

Status
Completed
Language of description
Undetermined
Script of description
Code for undetermined script

Repository Details

Part of the Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections Repository

Contact:
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