National Youth Alliance
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The National Youth Alliance (NYA) was a right-wing political organization founded on November 15, 1968 at the Army and Navy Club by Willis Carto
, head of the right-wing Liberty Lobby
.http://www.google.com/search?q=cache:huYrUT5y--EJ:www.nizkor.org/ftp.cgi/people/c/carto.willis/carto.002+%22National+Youth+Alliance%22+%22Jack+Anderson%22&hl=en&gl=us&ct=clnk&cd=2 The aim of the group was to recruit students to counter liberal and Marxist groups on college campuses like Students for a Democratic Society
. The NYA emerged from an earlier group connected to Willis Carto known as the Youth for Wallace, which had supported segregationist Governor
George Wallace
bid for president as American Independent Party
candidate in 1968.
Willis Carto was known to be a devotee of the writings of Francis Parker Yockey
, who was one of a handful of neo-Nazi esoteric writers during the post-World War II era who revered Adolf Hitler
. Yockey's best known book, Imperium, was adopted by Carto as his own guiding ideology and used as the philosophical basis of the National Youth Alliance.
One of the most notable members of the National Youth Alliance was William Luther Pierce
, previously a prominent figure in the National Socialist White People's Party (NSWPP), the successor organisation to the American Nazi Party
(ANP) which fell apart after the August 1967 assassination of its leader George Lincoln Rockwell
. Pierce joined the National Youth Alliance in 1970 after leaving the NSWPP.
By 1971, a rift had already developed between Carto and Pierce. Accusations by Carto emerged alleging that Pierce had stolen the mailing list of his Liberty Lobby organization and used it to send letters attacking Carto's group. Tensions continued until the group split into factions, with Pierce and his supporters splitting off into the newly formed National Alliance. This group would come to be one of the largest and most prominent far-right groups in America.
Willis Carto
Willis Allison Carto is a longtime figure on the American far right. He describes himself as Jeffersonian and populist, but is primarily known for his promotion of antisemitic conspiracy theories and Holocaust denial.-Influences on Carto:...
, head of the right-wing Liberty Lobby
Liberty Lobby
Liberty Lobby was an American political advocacy organization founded in 1958 that went bankrupt in 2001. It was founded by Willis Carto. In their own words,-Antisemitic world-view:...
.http://www.google.com/search?q=cache:huYrUT5y--EJ:www.nizkor.org/ftp.cgi/people/c/carto.willis/carto.002+%22National+Youth+Alliance%22+%22Jack+Anderson%22&hl=en&gl=us&ct=clnk&cd=2 The aim of the group was to recruit students to counter liberal and Marxist groups on college campuses like Students for a Democratic Society
Students for a Democratic Society (1960 organization)
Students for a Democratic Society was a student activist movement in the United States that was one of the main iconic representations of the country's New Left. The organization developed and expanded rapidly in the mid-1960s before dissolving at its last convention in 1969...
. The NYA emerged from an earlier group connected to Willis Carto known as the Youth for Wallace, which had supported segregationist Governor
Governor
A governor is a governing official, usually the executive of a non-sovereign level of government, ranking under the head of state...
George Wallace
George Wallace
George Corley Wallace, Jr. was the 45th Governor of Alabama, serving four terms: 1963–1967, 1971–1979 and 1983–1987. "The most influential loser" in 20th-century U.S. politics, according to biographers Dan T. Carter and Stephan Lesher, he ran for U.S...
bid for president as American Independent Party
American Independent Party
The American Independent Party is a right-wing political party of the United States that was established in 1967 by Bill and Eileen Shearer. In 1968, the American Independent Party nominated George C. Wallace as its presidential candidate and retired Air Force General Curtis E. LeMay as the vice...
candidate in 1968.
Willis Carto was known to be a devotee of the writings of Francis Parker Yockey
Francis Parker Yockey
Francis Parker Yockey was an American political thinker and polemicist best known for his neo-Spenglerian book Imperium: The Philosophy of History and Politics, published under the pen name Ulick Varange in 1948. This 600-page book argues for a culture-based, totalitarian path for the...
, who was one of a handful of neo-Nazi esoteric writers during the post-World War II era who revered Adolf Hitler
Adolf Hitler
Adolf Hitler was an Austrian-born German politician and the leader of the National Socialist German Workers Party , commonly referred to as the Nazi Party). He was Chancellor of Germany from 1933 to 1945, and head of state from 1934 to 1945...
. Yockey's best known book, Imperium, was adopted by Carto as his own guiding ideology and used as the philosophical basis of the National Youth Alliance.
One of the most notable members of the National Youth Alliance was William Luther Pierce
William Luther Pierce
William Luther Pierce III was the leader of the white separatist National Alliance organization, and one of the most important ideologists of the white nationalist movement. Pierce originally worked as an assistant professor of physics at Oregon State University, before he became involved in...
, previously a prominent figure in the National Socialist White People's Party (NSWPP), the successor organisation to the American Nazi Party
American Nazi Party
The American Nazi Party was an American political party founded by discharged U.S. Navy Commander George Lincoln Rockwell. Headquartered in Arlington, Virginia, Rockwell initially called it the World Union of Free Enterprise National Socialists , but later renamed it the American Nazi Party in...
(ANP) which fell apart after the August 1967 assassination of its leader George Lincoln Rockwell
George Lincoln Rockwell
George Lincoln Rockwell was the founder of the American Nazi Party. Rockwell was a major figure in the neo-Nazi movement in the United States, and his beliefs and writings have continued to be influential among white nationalists and neo-Nazis.-Early life:Rockwell was born in Bloomington,...
. Pierce joined the National Youth Alliance in 1970 after leaving the NSWPP.
By 1971, a rift had already developed between Carto and Pierce. Accusations by Carto emerged alleging that Pierce had stolen the mailing list of his Liberty Lobby organization and used it to send letters attacking Carto's group. Tensions continued until the group split into factions, with Pierce and his supporters splitting off into the newly formed National Alliance. This group would come to be one of the largest and most prominent far-right groups in America.