Frank Collin
| Frank Collin | |
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| President of the National Socialist Party of America | |
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In office 1970–1977 |
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| Preceded by | - |
| Succeeded by | Harold Covington |
| Personal details | |
| Born |
November 3, 1944 Chicago, Illinois |
| Political party | National Socialist Party of America |
| Profession | political activist, New Age author |
Francis Joseph "Frank" Collin (born November 3, 1944, Chicago, Illinois) was an American political activist and Midwest coordinator with the National Socialist White People's Party. After being ousted for being part Jewish (which he denied), Collin founded the National Socialist Party of America. In the late 1970s, its plan to march in the predominantly Jewish suburb of Skokie, Illinois was challenged, but the ACLU defended its freedom of speech and assembly in a case that reached the United States Supreme Court. The court in National Socialist Party of America v. Village of Skokie (1979), a major First Amendment decision, ruled that the party had a right to march and to display a swastika, despite local opposition. After Collin was convicted and sentenced in 1979 for child molestation, he lost his position in the party.
After being released early on parole from prison, Collin created a new career as a writer, publishing numerous books under the pen name Frank Joseph. He wrote New Age and "hyperdiffusionist" works supporting the hypothesis that Old World peoples had migrated to North America in ancient times and created its complex indigenous societies. This thesis is rejected by mainstream scholars.
Collin was born and grew up in Chicago, Illinois. His father Max Collin later said that he was a Jewish survivor of the Nazi Holocaust and had anglicized his name from Cohen or Cohn after settling in the United States. His mother was Catholic. The younger Collin went to local schools.
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