Michael Hill (activist)

Michael Hill
Born	J. Michael Hill 1951 (age 65–66) Alabama, United States of America
Nationality	American
Alma mater	University of Alabama
Occupation	Neo-Confederate activist, White supremacist activist
Organization	League of the South
Known for	President of the League of the South White supremacism

Michael Hill (born 1951) is an American-born political activist from Alabama. He is a co-founder and the president of the "Southern secession" movement the League of the South, an organization whose stated goal is to create an independent country made up of the former slave states of the American South. A Neo-Confederate, Hill is known for his white supremacist and pro-slavery views.

Hill was born in 1951 in Alabama.

He studied history at the University of Alabama, where two of his professors were Grady McWhiney and Forrest McDonald. In Cracker Culture, McWhiney and McDonald argued that the Southern United States was settled by Anglo-Celts for the most part, as opposed to the Northern United States, which was settled by British Protestants. In 2000, historian Brooks D. Simpson countered the claim, stating that "There are key parts of the South which were not settled by Anglo-Celts or anyone who saw themselves that way" and that "Southern culture is fundamentally defined by the interaction of different racial groups, primarily blacks and whites, and, to a lesser extent, Native Americans."

Hill taught British history at Stillman College, a historically black college in Tuscaloosa, Alabama, for eighteen years.

In 1994, Hill co-founded the League of the South, a pro-Southern secession organization, with Reverend J. Steven Wilkins of Auburn Avenue Presbyterian Church in Monroe, Louisiana and thirty-nine other Neo-Confederates. A year later, in 1995, he established a chapter of the League of the South on the campus of his alma mater, the University of Alabama. With Thomas Fleming, Hill co-authored an article entitled "New Dixie Manifesto" in The Washington Post in June 1995.

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