Read America's Secret Jihad: The Hidden History of Religious Terrorism in the United States Online
Authors: Stuart Wexler
Tags: #Non-Fiction, #History, #Terrorism, #Religion, #True Crime
CHAPTER
1
 Â
1
.
   Â
Jewish Telegraphic Agency, “Attempt to Dynamite Charlotte Synagogue Fails; Police Investigate,” JTA, November 27, 1957,
http://www.jta.org/1957/11/27/archive/attempt-to-dynamite-charlotte-synagogue-fails-police-investigate#ixzz3GpJQ8aRo
.
 Â
2
.
   Â
Jewish Telegraphic Agency, “FBI Investigates Bombing of Jewish Centers in Miami and Nashville,” JTA, March 18, 1958,
http://www.jta.org/1958/03/18/archive/f-b-i-investigates-bombing-of-jewish-centers-in-miami-and-nashville#ixzz3GpLZfNLU
.
 Â
3
.
   Â
Clive Webb, “Counterblast: How the Atlanta Temple Bombing Strengthened the Civil Rights Cause,” Southern Spaces, June 22, 2009,
www.southernspaces.org/2009/counterblast-how-atlanta-temple-bombing-strengthened-civil-rights-cause
.
 Â
4
.
   Â
JTA, “FBI Investigates.”
 Â
5
.
   Â
Jewish Telegraphic Agency, “Jews in Jacksonville Map Plans for Checking Anti-Jewish Terror,” JTA, April 30, 1958,
http://www.jta.org/1958/04/30/archive/jews-in-jacksonville-map-plans-for-checking-anti-jewish-terror
.
 Â
6
.
   Â
John McKay,
It Happened in Atlanta: Remarkable Events That Shaped History
(Guilford, CT: Morris Book Publishing, 2011), 110.
 Â
7
.
   Â
Jewish Telegraphic Agency, “Eisenhower Condemns Bombers of Synagogues as âGangsters,'” JTA, October 16, 1958,
http://www.jta.org/1958/10/16/archive/eisenhower-condemns-bombers-of-synagogues-as-gangsters#ixzz3P6Gla8xr
.
 Â
8
.
   Â
JTA, “FBI Investigates.”
 Â
9
.
   Â
Webb, “Counterblast.”
10
.
   Â
Jewish Telegraphic Agency, “People in South Not Influenced by Ku Klux Klan Anti-Jewish Propaganda,” JTA, June 16, 1958,
http://www.jta.org/1958/06/16/archive/people-in-south-not-influenced-by-ku-klux-klan-anti-jewish-propaganda#ixzz3P6L6wqsv
.
11
.
   Â
Melissa Fay Greene,
The Temple Bombing
(New York: Da Capo Press, 1996), 179.
12
.
   Â
Stuart Wexler and Larry Hancock,
The Awful Grace of God: Religious Terrorism, White Supremacy, and the Unsolved Murder of Martin Luther King Jr.
(Berkeley, CA: Counterpoint Press, 2012), 51.
13
.
   Â
“Speech to the Aryan Nations Congress in Hayden Lake, Idaho, in 1994,” YouTube, uploaded by priapus2222 on August 15, 2010,
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nUsHMymEJag
.
14
.
   Â
Anti-Defamation League of B'nai B'rith, “Anti-Semitism in the United States in 1947,” Documenting Maine Jews, accessed April 17, 2015,
http://mainejews.org/docs/Colby/ADLReportAntiSemitism1947.pdf
.
15
.
   Â
Clive Webb,
Fight against Fear: Southern Jews and Black Civil Rights
(Athens: University of Georgia Press, 2011), 52.
CHAPTER
2
 Â
1
.
   Â
Webb, “Counterblast.”
 Â
2
.
   Â
Federal Bureau of Investigation, “National States Rights Party, Part 1 of 1,” FBI, accessed April 16, 2015,
http://vault.fbi.gov/National%20States%20Rights%20Party/National%20States%20Rights%20Party%20Part%201%20of%201%20/view
.
 Â
3
.
   Â
Raymond Arsenault,
Freedom Riders: 1961 and the Struggle for Racial Justice
(Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2006), 92.
 Â
4
.
   Â
Wexler and Hancock,
Awful Grace of God,
55.
 Â
5
.
   Â
Patsy Sims,
The Klan,
2nd ed. (Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 1996), 135.
 Â
6
.
   Â
Ibid.
 Â
7
.
   Â
Wexler and Hancock,
Awful Grace of God
, 66.
 Â
8
.
   Â
Clive Webb,
Rabble Rousers: The American Far Right in the Civil Rights Era
(Athens: University of Georgia Press, 2011), 106.
 Â
9
.
   Â
Our Campaigns, “Faubus, Orval E.,” Our Campaigns, accessed March 3, 2015,
http://www.ourcampaigns.com/CandidateDetail.html?CandidateID=4200
.
10
.
   Â
Our Campaigns, “Crommelin, John G.,” Our Campaigns, accessed March 3, 2015,
http://www.ourcampaigns.com/CandidateDetail.html?CandidateID=19159
.
11
.
   Â
Our Campaigns, “Kasper, John,” Our Campaigns, accessed March 3, 2015,
http://www.ourcampaigns.com/CandidateDetail.html?CandidateID=4498
.
12
.
   Â
National States Rights Party, “They Called It the Speech of the Century,”
Thunderbolt,
April 1962,
https://archive.org/stream/foia_NSRP-Chicago-2A/NSRP-Chicago-2A#page/n41/mode/2up/search/scheme
.
13
.
   Â
Daytona Beach Morning Journal,
“How about These âOutsiders'?”
Daytona Beach Morning Journal,
August 5, 1964,
http://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=1873&dat=19640805&id=dpooAAAAIBA-J&sjid=k8wEAAAAIBAJ&pg=716,781543
.
14
.
   Â
Stephen E. Atkins,
Encyclopedia of Right-Wing Extremism in Modern American History
(Santa Barbara, CA: ABC-CLIO, 2011), 137.
15
.
   Â
Edwin Black, “Eugenics and the Nazis: The California Connection,” SFGate, November 9, 2003,
http://www.sfgate.com/opinion/article/Eugenics-and-the-Nazis-the-California-2549771.php
.
16
.
   Â
Nicholas Goodrick-Clarke,
Black Sun: Aryan Cults, Esoteric Nazism, and the Politics of Identity
(New York: NYU Press, 2003), 237.
17
.
   Â
Lothrop Stoddard,
The Rising Tide of Color against White World Supremacy
(New York: Scribner, 1921), 90â91.
18
.
   Â
Goodrick-Clarke,
Black Sun,
237.
19
.
   Â
Hiram Wesley Evans, “The Klan's Fight for Americanism,” North American Review, 1926,
http://faculty.atu.edu/cbrucker/Engl5383/Evans.htm
.
20
.
   Â
Committee on Un-American Activities, “Activities of the Ku Klux Klan Organizations in the United States,” Internet Archive, accessed April 16, 2015,
https://archive.org/stream/activitiesofkukl03unit#page/2486/mode/2up/search/romans
.
21
.
   Â
Ibid.
22
.
   Â
Michael Barkun,
Religion and the Racist Right: The Origins of the Christian Identity Movement
(Chapel Hill: UNC Press Books, 1997), 30â32.
23
.
   Â
Ibid.
24
.
   Â
Clarence Taylor,
Reds at the Blackboard: Communism, Civil Rights, and the New York City Teachers Union
(New York: Columbia University Press, 2013), 197.
25
.
   Â
Alan Brinkley,
Voices of Protest: Huey Long, Father Coughlin, and the Great Depression
(New York: Knopf Doubleday, 2011), 212.
26
.
   Â
Ibid., 171.
27
.
   Â
S.T. Joshi,
Documents of American Prejudice: An Anthology of Writings on Race from Thomas Jefferson to David Duke
(New York: Basic Books, 1999), 413.
28
.
   Â
Robert Singerman, “Contemporary Racist and Judeophobic Ideology Discovers the Khazars, or, Who Really Are the Jews?” (lecture, Thirty-ninth Annual Convention, Association of Jewish Libraries, Brooklyn, 2004).
29
.
   Â
Barkun,
Religion and the Racist Right,
177.
30
.
   Â
Stephen R. Haynes,
Noah's Curse: The Biblical Justification of American Slavery
(Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2002), 73â75, 133, 203â205.
31
.
   Â
Wexler and Hancock,
Awful Grace of God,
93.
32
.
   Â
Ibid., 24.
33
.
   Â
Michael Newton,
The Ku Klux Klan: History, Organization, Language, Influence, and Activities of America's Most Notorious Secret Society
(Jefferson, NC: McFarland and Company, 2007), 170.
34
.
   Â
Wexler and Hancock,
Awful Grace of God,
40.
35
.
   Â
Ibid., 37.
36
.
   Â
D. Boylan, “A League of Their Own: A Look inside the Christian Defense League,” Cuban Information Archives, 2004,
http://cuban-exile.com/doc_026-050/doc0tml
.
37
.
   Â
Office of the Attorney General, “Para-Military Organizations in California,” Harold Weisberg Archive, Hood College, accessed April 17, 2015,
http://jfk.hood.edu/Collection/Weisberg%20Subject%20Index%20Files/L%20Disk/Lynch%20Report/Item%2001.pdf
.
38
.
   Â
Federal Bureau of Investigation, “Wallace, Hugh Allen, Et al, Bombing of the Temple, Atlanta Georgia, October Twelve Last, Information Concerning,” Internet Archive, accessed April 17, 2015,
https://archive.org/stream/foia_Allen_Wallace_H.-HQ-9/Allen_Wallace_H.-HQ-9#page/n27/mode/2up/search/destroy
.
CHAPTER
3
 Â
1
.
   Â
Wesley Swift, “As in the Days of Noah, 9-30-62” Wesley Swift Library, accessed April 16, 2015,
http://swift.christogenea.org/book/export/html/528
.
 Â
2
.
   Â
Wright Thompson, “The Ghosts of Mississippi,” ESPN: Outside the Lines, accessed April 16, 2015,
http://sports.espn.go.com/espn/eticket/story?page=mississippi62
.
 Â
3
.
   Â
Ibid.
 Â
4
.
   Â
Ibid.
 Â
5
.
   Â
Ibid.
 Â
6
.
   Â
Millard J. Erickson,
A Basic Guide to Eschatology: Making Sense of the Millennium
(Grand Rapids, MI: Baker Books, 1998).
 Â
7
.
   Â
Conrad Gaard, “Spotlight on the Great Conspiracy,” Israel Elect of Zion, accessed April 17, 2015,
http://israelect.com/reference/ConradGaard/Spotlight%20on%20the%20Great%20Conspiracy.htm
.
 Â
8
.
   Â
Barkun,
Religion and the Racist Right,
240.
 Â
9
.
   Â
Ibid., 258.
10
.
   Â
Swift, “As in the Days of Noah.”
11
.
   Â
Chester Quarles,
Christian Identity: The Aryan American Bloodline Religion,
(Jefferson, NC: McFarland and Company, 2004), 180.
12
.
   Â
Thomas A. Tarrants,
The Conversion of a Klansman: The Story of a Former Ku Klux Klan Terrorist
(Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1979).
13
.
   Â
Ibid., 50.
14
.
   Â
Wesley Swift, “ArmageddonâLocal and Worldwide (5-5-63),” Wesley Swift Library, accessed April 16, 2015,
http://swift.christogenea.org/content/armageddon-local-and-worldwide-5-5-63
.
15
.
   Â
Martin Luther King Jr., “Letter from a Birmingham Jail,” African Studies Center, University of Pennsylvania, accessed April 16, 2015,
http://www.africa.upenn.edu/Articles_Gen/Letter_Birmingham.html
.
16
.
   Â
Associated Press, “Federal Troops Poised to Move into Birmingham,”
Quebec Chronicle-Telegraph,
May 13, 1963,
https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=957&dat=19630513&id=eoRhAAAAIBAJ&sjid=OswFAAAAIBAJ&pg=2700,2625710&hl=en
.
17
.
   Â
Wesley Swift, “Evidence of Divine Assistance (5-13-63),” Wesley Swift Library, accessed April 16, 2015,
http://swift.christogenea.org/content/evidence-divine-assistance-5-13-63
.