Racial+and+Relgous+supremest+groups

During the corse of the novel, Walter Winchell, a Jewish politcan who is campanig agenst Lindbergh's re-election, causse servarl white supremsest groups to riot in the streets of the citys that he visits. They sack Jewish bisuness and attempt to kill him. But who are thease groups? How did they start? And why do they hate every non white, non-cristan?

[|German-American Bundists:] They were America's first Nazi orgnization establised in 1930. As America's first Nazi party, the Bund's goal was to initiate America's own National Socialist Movement just as in Nazi Germany. The Bundists have only one direct conectin to the Roths which is when Herman is offerd a promotion and is asked to move into Union, New Jersy, where they pass a Bundist beer hall and decide agenst liveing there.

The Coughlinites: Folowrs of [|Charls Coughlin] a anitsematic radio brodcaster who sympthaysed with Hitler ideals and Lindbergh's isolationist plans.Walter Winchell is the oppset force compared ot Coughlin. The Coughlinites were some of the supected Winchell Rioters.

[|The Ku Klux Klan]: The name of sevral present and past secret miltant orgnizations in the United States whose avowed to protect rights and futre intrests of white Americans.They are best know for engangeing in violent acts to futher white supremecy. They hate Africa-Americans, Jews, Catholoics, any other racial minorty, and Labor Unions. The first klan was founded in Tennesse in 1865 by vetrens of the Confederate army, with the purpouse of restoring white supremecy after the war. Known for the white robe with pointy hat and cross burning. Walter Winchell's Louiesvilll assassination was done by a Klansman.

[|The Silver Leginon of America:] An America orgnizaton founded by Willam Dudley Pelley in January 30, 1933. Their symbole a scarlet L stands for Loyalty to the American Republic, Liberation from materialism and, of course, the Silver Legion itself. In 1934 the legion had 15,000 members, mostly lower class, the numbers began to dwindle untill the Japaness atack on Pearl Harbor and Nazi Germany's decloration of war on the United States, where it completly disbanded. The silver shirts are also some of the supeced Winchell Rioters.

[|America First Committie]: The formost non interventionst group agenst the American entry into World War Two. Peaking at 800,000 members it was likly the largest ant-war commiteie in American History. Started in 1940, it became defunct after the attack upon Pearl Harbor in December 1941. Recent organizations with similar names are not in any way connected to this historic groups.

[|The Black Legion]: The Black Legion was a additnal orgnization to the Ku Klux Klan that opreated in the United States in the 1930s. The Black Legion was organized along paramilitary lines and had five brigades, 16 regiments, 64 battalions, and 256 companies. Although its members boasted that there were one million legionnaires in Michigan, it probably had only between 20,000 and 30,000 members in the state in the 1930s, one third of whom lived in Detroit. They are allegedly responsible for numerous murders of alleged communists and socialists, notably Earl Little, Malcom X's father. They are the grould that most likey firebombed the schools during the Winchell Riots.

[|The American Nazi Party:] The establishmet of the Nazi party in America led by Geroge Lincon Rockwell. Orignaly called World Union of Free Enterprise National Socialists, The party was based largely upon the ideals and policies of Hitlers NSDAP in Germany durign the Third Reich but maintained allegiance to the Constitutional principles of the U.S.'s Founding Fathers. They are a politcal group that threteds demorcy, which Herman fears more than the Bundists.