Stephen Don Black, (photo) (born 28 July 1953) is an American white nationalist. He is the current webmaster of the "Stormfront" forum and former Grand Wizard of the Knights of the Ku Klux Klan (KKK). He was convicted in 1981 for attempted armed invasion of Dominica. July 28 is the 209th day (210th in leap years) of the year in the Gregorian Calendar, with 156 days remaining. ... 1953 (MCMLIII) was a common year starting on Thursday. ... This article or section does not cite its references or sources. ... A webmaster is a person responsible for designing, developing, marketing, or maintaining Web site(s). ... Logo displaying a variation on the Sun cross and the motto. ... Grand Wizard was the title used by the overall leader of earliest form of the Ku Klux Klan, during Reconstruction in the South. ... Members of the second Ku Klux Klan at a rally during the 1920s. ... 1981 (MCMLXXXI) was a common year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar. ...

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 organization 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. Athens is a city located in Limestone County, Alabama, and is included in the Huntsville-Decatur Metro Area. ... David Ernest Duke (born July 1, 1950) is a former Louisiana Republican state representative, a Presidential Primary candidate for both the Democratic and Republican Parties, former Imperial Wizard of the Knights of the Ku Klux Klan. ... Manifestations Slavery · Racial profiling Hate speech · Hate crime Lynching · Gay bashing Genocide · Holocaust Ethnocide · Ethnic cleansing Pogrom · Race war Religious persecution Movements Discriminatory Aryanism · Neo-Nazism White/Black supremacy Hate groups · Kahanism Anti-discriminatory Abolitionism Womens/Universal suffrage Civil rights · Gay rights Childrens rights · Youth rights Groups NAACP... Old book bindings at the Merton College library. ... Politics is the process by which groups make decisions. ... Polish soldiers reading a German leaflet during the Warsaw Uprising A pamphlet is an unbound booklet (that is, without a hard cover or binding). ...

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. High school is a name used in some parts of the world, and particularly in North America, to describe the last segment of compulsory secondary education. ... Coordinates: County Chatham Mayor Otis S. Johnson Area    - City 202. ... Jesse Benjamin J.B. Stoner (born 1924) is a White supremacist. ... Racial segregation is a kind of formalized or institutionalized discrimination on the basis of race, characterized by the races separation from each other. ... This is a list of Governors of the state of Georgia, including governors of the British colony of Georgia. ... The person who killed Martin Luther King Jr. ... This article or section does not cite its references or sources. ... Private schools, or independent schools, are schools not administered by local, state, or national government, which retain the right to select their student body and are funded in whole or in part by charging their students tuition rather than with public (state) funds. ... Nickname: Rocket City Watercress Capital of the World Coordinates: Country United States State Alabama County Madison, Limestone Mayor Loretta Spencer Area    - City 174. ...

The Ku Klux Klan and Operation Red Dog

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. Members of the second Ku Klux Klan at a rally during the 1920s. ... 1975 (MCMLXXV) was a common year starting on Wednesday. ... Nickname: The Magic City, Pittsburgh of the South, BHam, The Ham Location in Jefferson County in the state of Alabama Coordinates: Country United States State Alabama County Jefferson, Shelby Mayor Bernard Kincaid (D) Area    - City 151. ... Official language(s) English Capital Montgomery Largest city Birmingham Area  Ranked 30th  - Total 52,419 sq mi (135,765 km²)  - Width 190 miles (306 km)  - Length 330 miles (531 km)  - % water 3. ... A resignation is the formal act of giving up ones office or position. ... 1978 (MCMLXXVIII) was a common year starting on Sunday. ...

He unsuccessfully ran for mayor of Birmingham in 1979. A mayor (from the Latin māior, meaning larger, greater) is the modern title of the highest ranking municipal officer. ... For the Smashing Pumpkins song, see 1979 (song). ...

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. April 27 is the 117th day of the year (118th in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar, with 248 days remaining. ... 1981 (MCMLXXXI) was a common year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Front page of the Toronto Sun, April 14, 2005. ... New Orleans is the largest city in the state of Louisiana, United States of America. ... The bayonet is used as both knife and spear. ... Boxes of ammunition clog a warehouse in Baghdad Ammunition is a generic military term meaning (the assembly of) a projectile and its propellant. ... Operation Red Dog was the code name of a planned invasion of Dominica by Ku Klux Klan leaders Don Black (U.S.) and Wolfgang Droege (Canadian) and former Dominican prime minister Patrick John. ...

The invasion would have restored former prime minister Patrick John and set up lucrative cocaine, gambling, and prostitution industries on the island. Defenders have claimed that his actions were no different than those of President Reagan's invasion of Grenada. ^[1][2][3] 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. Patrick Roland John (b. ... Cocaine (or crack in its impure freebase form) is a crystalline tropane alkaloid that is obtained from the leaves of the coca plant. ... Gambling has had many different meanings depending on the cultural and historical context in which it is used. ... Whore redirects here. ... Several United States laws have been called Neutrality Acts: The Neutrality Act of 1935 prohibited American citizens from selling arms to belligerents in international war. ... 1984 (MCMLXXXIV) was a leap year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Official language(s) None See: Languages of Texas Capital Austin Largest city Houston Area  Ranked 2nd  - Total 268,581 sq mi (695,622 km²)  - Width 773 miles (1,244 km)  - Length 790 miles (1,270 km)  - % water 2. ...

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".^[4] Nathan Bedford Forrest Nathaniel Bedford Forrest (July 13, 1821 – October 29, 1877), was a Confederate general and perhaps the American Civil Wars most highly regarded cavalry and partisan ranger (guerrilla leader). ... Look up contra in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ...

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." 1986 (MCMLXXXVI) was a common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar. ... 1987 (MCMLXXXVII) was a common year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Violence is any act of aggression and abuse which causes or intends to cause injury, in some cases criminal, or harm to persons, and (by some definitions) animals or property. ...

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 white pride, neo-Nazi, and skinhead graphics for downloading, and a number of links to other white nationalist websites. Logo displaying a variation on the Sun cross and the motto. ... A website (or Web site) is a collection of web pages, typically common to a particular domain name or subdomain on the World Wide Web on the Internet. ... William Luther Pierce III[1] (September 11, 1933 – July 23, 2002) was the founder of the white separatist National Alliance organization, and a principal ideologue of the white nationalist movement. ... David Ernest Duke (born July 1, 1950) is a former Louisiana Republican state representative, a Presidential Primary candidate for both the Democratic and Republican Parties, former Imperial Wizard of the Knights of the Ku Klux Klan. ... The Institute for Historical Review (IHR), founded in 1978, is a leading Holocaust denial organization. ... White Aryan Resistance member wearing a white pride t-shirt White pride is a term used primarily in the United States to denote a celebration of the heritage of persons of White-European racial identity[1]—though generally to the exclusion of homosexuals and Jews, as well as certain other... The terms Neo-Nazism and Neo-Fascism refer to any social or political movement to revive Nazism or Fascism, respectively, and postdates the Second World War. ... Nazi-Skinheads are a right wing subculture that developed in the United Kingdom in the first half of the 1980s. ... Graphics are visual presentations on some surface such as a wall, canvas, computer screen, paper, or stone to brand, inform, illustrate, or entertain. ...

In 2004, Black joined in signing the New Orleans Protocol on behalf of Stormfront. The New Orleans Protocol seeks to "mainstream" white nationalism 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 1990s.ISBN 0-415-94922-X Don Black again attended CCC meetings in 2005, according to the Southern Poverty Law Center. The New Orleans Protocol (NOP) was signed in New Orleans, Louisiana, on May 29, 2004. ... The Council of Conservative Citizens (abbreviated CCC or CofCC) is an American paleoconservative white separatist political organization that supports European, Southern, and caucasian heritage and opposes multiculturalism. ... The Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) is an American non-profit legal organization, whose stated purpose is to combat racism and promote civil rights through research, education, and litigation. ...

Stormfront Inc has also been operation a website called www.martinlutherking.org. The website claims to be a musthave resource for students and teachers alike. However, once in the website, white supremacy and possibly false information is posted.

References

1. ^ http://www.canadiancontent.ca/articles/031401reddog.html
2. ^ http://www.thedominican.net/articles/droege.htm
3. ^ http://www.osti.gov/energycitations/product.biblio.jsp?osti_id=4568282
4. ^ Gabaldon, Diana (2002). The Fiery Cross. Delta, 398. ISBN 0-385-33676-4. 

External links

• Stormfront - created by Don Black
• The Anti-Defamation League's profile of Stormfront and Don Black
• White Nationalist news and information portal - hosted by Don Black