National Association for the Advancement of White People

The National Association for the Advancement of White People (NAAWP) is a name that has been used for several white nationalist organizations in the United States,[1] deriving its name from the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People.[2][3]

National Association for the Advancement of White People
AbbreviationNAAWP
Formation1980
HeadquartersMetairie, Louisiana
Region served
United States

Delaware, 1953

The first organization was originally incorporated on December 14, 1953 in Delaware by Bryant Bowles. The following year an article was written on the organization by Time magazine.[4] In September 1955, the Deputy Attorney General of Delaware took action to revoke its corporate charter.[5]

Louisiana, 1979

In 1979, David Duke left the Ku Klux Klan and incorporated a new group taking the name of the defunct National Association for the Advancement of White People.[6] It was headquartered in Metairie, an unincorporated place in Jefferson Parish, Louisiana, a suburb of New Orleans.

In 1998, the organization had local chapters in Ardmore and Selma in Alabama; Harrison and Texarkana in Arkansas; Conyers and Hogansville in Georgia; Paducah in Kentucky; Brookhaven, Escatawpa, Hazlehurst, McComb, Oxford, Petal, Philadelphia, Sontag, and Union Church in Mississippi; as well as in Murfreesboro and Nashville in Tennessee.[7]

The organization was described as a "hate group" by the Southern Poverty Law Center in 1998.[7] The SPLC described it as a white supremacist organization who distribute "their own hateful propaganda" to white schoolchildren in the United States.[8]

The NAAWP advocated opposition to affirmative action programs and a strong law and order stance, such as favoring the death penalty and three strikes laws.

See also

References
  1. Applebome, Peter (February 16, 1989). "Klan's Ghost Haunts Louisiana Vote". The New York Times.
  2. Glaberson, William (March 22, 1998). "15 Hate Groups in Region, Monitoring Organization Says". The New York Times.
  3. Heidi Beirch; Kevin Hicks (2009). "White Nationalism in America". In Perry, Barbara (ed.). Hate Crimes. Praeger. p. 111. ISBN 978-0275995690. Retrieved 22 March 2016.
  4. "Education: Racial Flare-Up". Time. 11 October 1954.
  5. "White Supremacy Leader Arrested". Indianapolis Recorder. October 16, 1954. pp. 1, 3. Retrieved May 28, 2019.
  6. Bridges, Tyler (1995). The Rise of David Duke. University Press of Mississippi. p. 85. ISBN 978-0878056842.
  7. "RECOGNIZED 'HATE' GROUPS". The Jackson Sun. Jackson, Tennessee. June 21, 1998. p. 2. Retrieved December 1, 2017 – via Newspapers.com.
  8. "Intelligence Report, Fall 2000, Issue Number: 100". Southern Poverty Law Center. Retrieved 20 March 2015.


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