National States' Rights Party
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National States' Rights Party
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| Founded | 1958 |
| Headquarters | Knoxville, Tennessee |
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States' rights White Nationalist Racial segregation |
| Political position | Far-right |
The National States' Rights Party was a far right, white supremacist party that briefly played a minor role in the politics of the United States.
Founded in 1958 in Knoxville, Tennessee by Edward Reed Fields, a 26 year-old chiropractor and supporter of J. B. Stoner, the party was based on antisemitism, Racism and opposition to racial integration with African American people. Party officials argued for states' rights against the advance of the civil rights movement, and the organization itself established relations with the Ku Klux Klan and Minutemen. Although a white supremacist movement, its messaging was never openly neo-Nazi in the way that its successors in the American Nazi Party were.
The national chairman of the party was J. B. Stoner, who served three years in prison for bombing the Bethel Baptist Church in Birmingham, Alabama. The party produced a newspaper, Thunderbolt, which was edited by Edward Reed Fields. In 1958, the party's first year, five men with links to the NSRP were indicted for their participation in the bombing of The Temple in Atlanta.
During the 1960 presidential election, at a secret meeting held in a rural lodge near Dayton, Ohio, the NSRP nominated Governor of Arkansas Orval E. Faubus for President and retired U.S. Navy Rear Admiral John G. Crommelin of Alabama for Vice President. Faubus, however, did not campaign on this ticket actively, and won only 0.07% of the vote (best in his native Arkansas: 6.76%). The party also ran in the 1964 presidential election, nominating John Kasper for President and J. B. Stoner for Vice President, although they won only 0.01%, i.e. less than 7,000 votes.
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