HATE GROUPS AND CRIMES

SUPREMACIST BELIEFS The belief that a

particular race, religion, gender, sexual orientation, belief system or culture is superior to others and entitles those who identify with it to dominate, control or rule those who do not.

WHAT CONSTITUTES HATE SPEECH? Any speech intended to

foster hatred against individuals or groups based on Race, Religion, Gender, Sexual Preference, place of national origin, or other improper classification

SCHENCK VS. UNITED STATES

“Bleep the Draft” – literature opposing draft

Literature significantly impacting recruitment and administering Selective Service Act

Arrested and jailed for distributing literature

If Speech presents a “Clear and Present danger” to others, it can be limited

Your rights end where others begin

WHAT IS A HATE CRIME? Occurs when a person targets a victim

because of his/her perceived membership in a certain social group

Includes physical assault, damage to property, bullying, harassment, verbal abuse/insults, hate mail, etc.

Usually those 20 & under; Overwhelmingly by strangers

HATE CRIME EXAMPLES

Medgar Evers Civil Rights Leader and active member of the

NAACP Lawyer for James Meredith who was first

African American to graduate from University of Mississippi

Killed on June 12, 1963 by Byron De La Beckwith, a fertilizer salesman and member of the White Citizens' Council and Ku Klux Klan

Above: Medgar Evers’ house where he was struck with a bullet.Right: Assassin Byron de la Beckwith; no conviction until 30 years later in 1994; dies at age 80 in prison

HATE CRIME EXAMPLES Matthew Shepard Targeted because of sexual

orientation by Aaron Mckinney and Russel Henderson

Robbed, Pistol-whipped, tortured, and tied to a fence left for dead

Brought national attention for Hate Crime legislation in US, especially based on sexual orientation

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KU KLUX KLAN Founded in Pulaski, Tennessee in the years after the Civil War by Confederate veterans

Opposed Reconstruction acts by violence, intimidation, and even murder

This Klan expanded their hatred… Catholics: believed Pope would take over the world

Communism anti-immigration Jews anti-anything that was not white

Protestant America including Prohibition

1. The 1957 murder of Willie Edwards, Jr. Klansmen forced Edwards to jump to his death from a bridge into the Alabama River.

2. The 1963 assassination of NAACP organizer Medgar Evers in Mississippi. In 1994, former Ku Klux Klansman Byron De La Beckwith was convicted.

3. The 1963 bombing of the 16th Street Baptist Church in Birmingham, Alabama, which killed four African-American girls.

KKK TODAY Over 40 different groups with hundreds of chapters in each

Enemies list includes Jews, African Americans, homosexuals, and different groups of immigrants

NEO-NAZI/ARYAN NATION Anti-Government Anti-Jewish Anti-anything not “Aryan” "We must secure the existence of our people and a future for white children."

WHITE SUPREMACIST GROUPS AND SKINHEADS

Aryan Nations

Creativity Movement/World Church of the Creator

National Alliance

National Socialist Movement

The Nationalist Movement

White Revolution

NEO-NAZISM/ARYAN NATION Known Targets include:

Jews African Americans Asians Latinos Arabs Homosexuals Catholics

American neo-Nazi groups often operate websites, occasionally stage public demonstrations, and maintain ties to groups in Europe and elsewhere

BLACK SEPARATISTS Emerged from Black Panthers: more

militant approach to achieving civil rights; founded by Stokely Carmichael

Reject integration and intermarriage Want separate institutions…even a

separate Nation for black people in America

Anti-White & Anti-Semitic Believe that blacks are the “chosen people

of God” – not the Jews

Stokely CarmichaelTommy Smith and John Carlos Protest at 1968 OlympicsPeter Norman (Australia) sympathized with both American athletes

MEDGAR EVERS “It may sound funny, but I love the

South. I don’t choose to live anywhere else. There’s land here, where a man can raise cattle, and I’m going to do it some day. There are lakes where a man can sink a hook and fight the bass. There is room here for my children to play and grow, and become good citizens—if the white man will let them....” —Medgar Evers, “Why I Live in Mississippi”