William Dudley Pelley and his Silver Shirts

[MrFurious]

I can't find any pictures of this guy and his "stormtroopers". Any links? I've just read his bio after seeing a quick reference to him in the "Why we Fight" series. I'd post the link to his controversial bio here but it's unfortunately on a white power site and I don't want to get banned. But a Google search will take you there.

[Tchort]

Whats wrong with 'White Power' sites? I've linked several and have a few in my signiture, you wont be banned 8)

[Marcus]

I don't want links to "white power" sites in my forum.

/Marcus

[Vance Pollock]

Here is a Pelley photo, the Silvershirt logo and a link to the best online biography, "Christ's Men in Silver Raiment."

http://www.geocities.com/obscurist/Chief3s.jpg
http://www.geocities.com/obscurist/wingedl2.JPG

Christ's Men in Silver Raiment:
http://www.faem.com/books/pelley.htm

[MrFurious]

Hi. I have not posted in a while, but thanks for the links. Somehow the geocities links refuse to work, but the other one does. My interest in Pelley is out of reading that article on him that i had mentioned earlier, i wanted to see pictures so i could link a face to the name. Thanks for this link.

[Marcus]

Somehow the geocities links refuse to work

Try this one instead: http://www.geocities.com/obscurist/

/Marcus

[Vance Pollock]

Here is a link to some Pelley images I dropped in folder for public viewing:

http://www.villagephotos.com/pubbrowse. ... ted=107756

These are fairly hard to find, so feel free to copy and circulate them.

[LEVE]

One hold over from the 1940's was the "States Rights" movement. Though this movement centered in the Southern States, it was a national movement in scope.

One of the lastest movements that I remember was "National States’ Rights Party"

It was founded in 1958 by Edward Fields. They:
a. Used the SS Rune as a symbol.
b. The name of their publication was " The Thunderbolt"
c. Their uniform was a Silver Shirt, black belt, boots and Sam Browne belt.

They considered themselves part of a patrotic movement dedicated to the preservation of the US Consutition. In reality, they spent most of thier time defending against acusations of being a facist orgainzation.

Though this movement was small, it's members were acitive against the 1960's Civil Rights Movement. This was to be expected, as most of the members had come into the NSRP from the KKK and other racist groups the members considered not militant engough.

Strangly, few ever ex-NSRP member ever migrated to the ANP, NSWPP, NSWM, or any of the other "White Power" organizations as the NSRP membership dwindled.