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...characters in Birth, and then allows Griffith’s Birth to pick up the fragments of splintered national identity. At the climax of Griffith’s myth, veterans of the Union and the Confederacy realize that they share the common bond of an “Aryan birthright”—and they defend this birthright from a mob of marauding Negroes...
...entire white-supremacy movement is at a crossroads. The Ku Klux Klan still has about 7,000 members, says Mark Potok, director of the intelligence project at the Southern Poverty Law Center, which tracks such organizations. But the leaders of several other major groups--like the National Alliance and Aryan Nations--have either died or been arrested in recent years. In the confusion, less formal splinter groups and rabid online communities have formed. Stormfront, the first major white-supremacy site, was created in 1995 and now claims to have 45,600 members. Rough estimates put the total number of members...
...European to win the world title in 1930, and launched a famous rivalry when he knocked out American challenger Joe Louis in 1936; his loss in a 1938 rematch in Yankee Stadium became emblematic of the coming struggle with Nazi Germany. But he was miscast by Hitler as an Aryan superhero. He refused to join the Nazi Party and after the war, it was disclosed he had saved two Jews from attack in the Kristallnacht violence of 1938. A quiet philanthropist, he befriended Louis later in life, even paying for the impoverished former champ's 1981 funeral...
...beat Jack Sharkey on a foul in 1930. In 1936 he launched a famous rivalry when he knocked out U.S. challenger Joe Louis; his loss in a 1938 rematch at Yankee Stadium was hailed as a national triumph over Nazi Germany. But he was miscast by Hitler as an Aryan superhero; he refused to join the Nazi Party, and after the war, it was disclosed that he had saved two Jews from attack in the Kristallnacht violence in 1938. He befriended Louis later in life, quietly giving the impoverished former champ money and paying for his 1981 funeral...
DIED. RICHARD BUTLER, 86, white supremacist who in the early 1970s founded a 20-acre compound in rural Idaho called the Aryan Nations, spawning chapters in a dozen states and contacts with neo-Nazis around the globe; in Hayden, Idaho. Dubbed "the elder statesman of hate" by civil rights advocates, the former aerospace engineer housed a spectrum of right-wing extremists, some of whom would later be convicted of racially motivated crimes. Butler himself claimed he was against violence, however, and operated relatively unhindered until he was bankrupted by a $6.3 million lawsuit in 2001--stemming from a 1998 incident...