Don Black (white supremacist)

For the musician, see Don Black (musician).

Don Black (born 28 July 1953) is the right wing conservative white nationalist webmaster of Stormfront and the former Grand Wizard (national leader) of the Knights of the Ku Klux Klan.

Early life

Black was born and raised in Athens, Alabama, first coming into contact with the white nationalist movement at age 15, when he joined the White Youth Alliance, an organisation founded by David Duke. He caused controversy by handing out racist literature at his school, which caused the school to ban the distribution of political pamphlets.

In 1970, his senior year of high school, Black went to Savannah, Georgia, to work on the campaign of J.B. Stoner, a segregationist running for governor of Georgia. During this time, Jerry Ray, brother of James Earl Ray, shot Black in the chest after he admitted to having broken into Stoner's offices at the request of the American Nazi Party (this was at a time when Stoner and the ANP were in conflict with each other). He recovered and returned to finish his education at a private school in Huntsville.

The Ku Klux Klan

Black joined the Knights of the Ku Klux Klan (KKK hereafter) in 1975, one year after David Duke took over the organization. He moved to Birmingham to become the group's organizer for the state of Alabama. After the resignation of Duke in 1978, Don Black became Grand Wizard, or national director, of the KKK.

He unsuccessfully ran for mayor of Birmingham in 1979.

On April 27 1981, Black, along with Larry Lloyd Jacklin and Wolfgang Droege, was arrested in New Orleans as they prepared to board a boat stocked with weapons and ammunition to invade Dominica in what Black, Droege and Jacklin dubbed Operation Red Dog.

The invasion would have restored former prime minister Patrick John and set up lucrative cocaine and gambling industries on the island. Over the years, defenders have never failed to point out that his actions were no different than those of President Reagan's invasion of Grenada.^{[citation needed]} Black was sentenced to three years in prison for his role in the attempted invasion and his violation of the Neutrality Act. He was released in 1984, having served his sentence in a federal prison in Texas.

In 1985, Black announced that he had created the "Nathanial Bedford Forrest Brigade" under KKK auspices to aid the Contras in Nicaragua. He said the 120-man unit would engage in psychological warfare to foster anti-government sentiment and would provide "a civil action unit to promote a stable economy" ["The Fiery Cross" by Diana Gabaldon, Delta 2002 ISBN 0385336764, page 398]

In 1986 Black rethought his commitment to the KKK. Resigning from the group in 1987, he said:

"I concluded the Klan could never be a viable political movement again. It had a reputation for random and senseless violence which it could never overcome. There were several events around that time that reinforced that opinion."

from Stormfront.org to today

In 1995, Black founded Stormfront, a white nationalist website, featuring the writings of prominent white nationalists such as William Luther Pierce and David Duke, as well as works by the Institute for Historical Review. Initially, along with these articles, Stormfront housed a library of neo-Nazi graphics for downloading, and a number of links to other white nationalist websites.

In 2004, Black joined in signing the New Orleans Protocol on behalf of Stormfront. The New Orleans Protocol seeks to "mainstream our cause" by reducing violence and internecine warfare, and was written by David Duke.

He has also attended meetings of the Council of Conservative Citizens in the 1990's.[1]

In 2005 Don Black again attended CCC meetings according to the SPLC.

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