White Aryan Resistance (WAR) flyers, 1980s
Scope and Content
5 black and white flyers printed for the Concord, California sect of the White Aryan Resistance (W.A.R.). They depict anti-Semitic propaganda with pictures of white students, guns, and swastikas, and phrases such as "get out Jew while you can".
Dates
- Creation: 1980s
Creator
- From the Collection: American Nazi Party (Organization)
- From the Collection: American Security Council (Organization)
- From the Collection: American Volunteer Groups (Harbor City, Calif.) (Organization)
- From the Collection: America's Future (Organization) (Organization)
- From the Collection: American Economic Foundation (Organization)
- From the Collection: Anti-Bolshevik Bloc of Nations (Organization)
- From the Collection: California Free Enterprise Association (Organization)
- From the Collection: Christian Crusade (Organization)
- From the Collection: Christian Nationalist Crusade (Organization)
- From the Collection: Cinema Educational Guild (Organization)
- From the Collection: Citizens' Councils of America (Organization)
- From the Collection: Edmondson, Robert Edward (Person)
- From the Collection: Fox, Charles (Person)
- From the Collection: Koch, Edward A. (Person)
- From the Collection: Ku Klux Klan (1915- ) (Organization)
- From the Collection: Minutemen (Organization) (Organization)
- From the Collection: National Socialist White People's Party (Organization)
- From the Collection: Rockwell, George Lincoln (Person)
- From the Collection: Protestants and Other Americans United for Separation of Church and State (Organization)
- From the Collection: Smoot, Dan (Person)
- From the Collection: Sons of Liberty (Hollywood, Calif.) (Organization)
- From the Collection: United Community Churches of America (Organization)
- From the Collection: U.S.ENGLISH (Organization) (Organization)
- From the Collection: White Aryan Resistance (Organization)
- From the Collection: Women of the Ku Klux Klan (Organization)
Conditions Governing Access
COLLECTION STORED OFF-SITE. Advance notice required for access.
Historical note
The W.A.R. was founded by former Ku Klux Klan Grand Wizard Tom Metzger. It grew out of an earlier organization founded by Metzger, the White American Political Association, which was dedicated to promoting "prowhite" candidates for political office. After losing the 1982 California Senate Democratic primary, Metzger abandoned his electoral ambitions and reorganized WAPA as White American Resistance in 1983, subsequently renamed White Aryan Resistance, to reflect a more "revolutionary" stance. The new organization used a wide range of propaganda techniques, including a controversal television program, "Race and Reason", to transmit its white supremacist ideas.
Extent
From the Collection: 20.52 Linear Feet (20 boxes)
Language of Materials
From the Collection: English
Repository Details
Part of the USC Libraries Special Collections Repository
Doheny Memorial Library 206
3550 Trousdale Parkway
Los Angeles California 90089-0189 United States
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