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National States Rights Party — Part 1
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Charles Conley Lynch
Known as the NSRP*s “itinerant preacher," “Connie™
Lynch spends most of his time filling speaking engagementa |
for the NSRP all over the country, He was born November 15,
1912, in Clarksville, Texas, but drifted to southern California,
where he worked as 2 lemon picker and a plasterer,
In the late 1930's, he became a minister and thereafter
was associated with several tiny fundamentalist sects located
in California, During World War II, he served with the United
States Arey for two years,
Lynch has a long history of involvement in various .
white supremacy and anti-Semitic groups and activities, He once
headed an anti-integration group called the Christian Defense
League and was also a member of the United Florida Ku Klux
Klan, In February, 1963, he was arrested in San Bernardino,
California, after he and others, yelling “Kill the Jews,"
antagonized patrons at a local drive-in and precipitated
a brawl,
In his speaking appearances, Lynch wears a vest
made of ga Confederate flag. <A spellbinder of the fundanentalist-—
revivalist school of the southern backwoods, he is a consummate
rabble-rouser, noted for his highly inflammatory speeches,
His oratory is liberally spiked with lurid references to
rape, murder, and cannibalism at the hands of the blacks, In
a fire-and-brinustone speech in Jacksonville, Florida, on one
occasion, he exhorted the white people to unite and stand
against their enemies--the blacks, the Jews, and the communists,
“The Jew is the son of Satan,” cried Lynch; “the white man is
the gon of God,"
From October, 1968, to November, 1969, Lynch was
incarcerated in the Maryland State Penitentiary, where he
served a sentence as a result of his conviction for inciting
a riot in Baltimore in July, 1966,
Varied Public Activities
The NSRP engages in a variety of public activities,
‘guch as rallies, demonstrations, picketings, and political
, campaigns, In imitation of Klan rallies, outdoor rallies
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