NCJ Number
122018
Journal
Southern Exposure Volume: 8 Issue: 2 Dated: (Summer 1980) Pages: 43-44
Date Published
1980
Length
2 pages
Annotation
The Klan Youth Corps recruits white youth to teach them white "superiority," black "inferiority," and "beware the 'enemy' -- the Jews."
Abstract
The published goals of the Youth Corps are to organize white youth in schools, use a "get-tough" policy with "arrogant nonwhites," force school administrators to drop their "appeasement policy toward minorities by threatening public exposure followed by possible boycotts," demand "equal rights for white students," and segregate classes followed by segregation of schools. At their meetings, Klan youth are told by Klan adults that they are losing all their rights to minorities. Youth are encouraged to air grievances against blacks and teachers sympathetic to minorities. Some groups are instructed in the use of firearms, from pistols to sawed-off shotguns, in preparation for the day when "weapons may be the solution to the race problem." Members of the Klan Youth Corps bond to one another through social activities and even summer camps. Klan leader Tom Metzger has likened the Youth Corps to "the Boy Scouts or the Girl Scouts, only racist."