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€ blackface make-up, and oversized noses, Rockwell turns his demonstrations into carnivals of hate. In 1960, he sent troopers dressed in ape costumes to picket the Washington Zoo. They carried placards reading "Free Our Brothers" and "We Equals Want Civil Rights.“ | Publicity is, as he said, "the life-blood of a political movement." When the press ignores him, he laments the "paper curtain" and blames the Jews. He attempts to ensure notice by advising the press, law enforcement authorities, and Jewish organizations of his scheduled activities. Articles or statements which displease him provoke a demand for public apology. He is continually either threatening or instituting legal action. In September, 1964, he filed a $550,000 libel suit in the Federal Court in Birmingham, Alabama, against "an ex-chiropractor named _ Edward Fields, ' Information Director of the National States Rights Party, claiming that for more than two years Fields had “engaged in a continuing conspiracy to ruin him." Rockwell earlier had attempted unsuccessfully to unite in principle with Fields, since the National States Rights Party is an extremist organization which believes in white supremacy. The slogans, "The Jews Are Through in 72," "Stand With Us Or Stand Out of Our Way," and "Communism Is Jewish," are but three of many used by the ANP. Rockwell relies on his artistic talents to prepare the offensive slogans which appear on demonstration placards. - 81 -