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APPENDIX NATIONAL STATES RIGHTS PARTY MM 157-876 On November 26, 1957, a source advised that the United White Party (LVIP\ wae ovcanized at a convention held =i TU ——S So wee va oS ka Soe ee Se * é o- in Knoxville, Tennessee, on November 10, 1957. An article | in the November 26, 1957, issue of the "Greenville Piedmont," a newspaper of Greenville, South Carolina, repdrted that a "Ku Klux Klan spokesman of Greenville reported the recent formation of a new political party to be known as the United White Party." According to the article, the party was formed at a recently held meeting in Knoxville, Tennessee, at which many Klansmen were represented. The UWP was reported as being opposed to all "race mixing organizations and individuals." The July, 1958, issue of "The Thunderbolt," self- described as the "official Racial Nationalist Organ of the National States Rights Party" (NSRP) reported that rank and file "States Righters" had merged with the UWP under "the banner of the National States Rights Party," with national offices at Post Office Box 261, Jeffersonville, Indiana. In November, 1958, a source advised that the NSRP is composed of past members of the Ku Klux Klan and notorious anti-Semites. Issue No. 19, dated June, 1960, "The Thunderbolt" announced the address ‘of the headquarters of the NSRP had been changed from Jeffersonville, Indiana, to Post Office Box 783, Birmingham, Alabama. On June 17, 1960, a source advised that EDWARD R. FIELDS, the Information Director of the NSRP, is the individual who "runs the NSRP." "The Thunderbolt" continues to publish articles Negroes and persone of the Jewish faith attacking . -26-