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Robert E. "Pastor Bob" Miles (January 28, 1925 – August 16, 1992) was a white supremacist theologist and religious leader from Michigan. Biography. According to his obituary in the Ann Arbor News, Robert Miles was: "Raised in New York City, Miles joined the Free French forces in 1940 by lying about his age. He worked as a radio operator in ...
“Pastor” Robert E. Miles was the Grand Dragon of the Michigan Ku Klux Klan, and is still considered one of the most influential white supremacists of all time. Unfortunately for us, he made his home – quite publicly – in Livingston County.
- Robert Miles' Legacy of Hate in Howell
- A 1994 Rally at The Capitol, and Pushback
- Mission Is to Spread Fear and Hate
Many historians believe Klan membership was commonplace among automotive union workers throughout the state for decades, Castanier said. That suspected link was confirmed by one of the group’s most notorious leaders, Robert Miles, in 1991. The KKK recruited new members amid the working class, Miles, a former grand dragon of the Michigan Klan, said ...
The KKK came to mid-Michigan in the spring of 1994 looking to hold public events in two communities – Lansing and Charlotte. David Newmann, unit commander of the Ku Klux Klan Realm of Michigan, told the State Journal in March 1994 that Charlotte “is a representative community of what America was at one time, and what we’d like to see it be again.” ...
A handful of Klan chapters are still active in Michigan. MSU houses some Klan artifacts within its Stephen O. Murray and Keelung Hong Special Collections. There are more at the Jim Crow Museum of Racist Memorabilia in Big Rapids and at Central Michigan University, where 1920s KKK membership ledgers from Newaygo County are stored. The ledgers were a...
Aug 18, 1992 · Miles, 67, former grand dragon of the Michigan Ku Klux Klan, died Sunday at McPherson Hospital in Howell. Hospital officials declined to give the cause of death, but friends said he had a history ...
Sep 12, 2017 · That man was Robert Miles. He lived on a farm near Howell in Cohoctah Township where he held cross burnings and hate rallies. Listen above to hear how Robert Miles, and his love of publicity, made Howell out to be the KKK capital of Michigan when in fact it is not. (Subscribe to the Stateside podcast on iTunes, Google Play, or with this RSS link)
Oct 22, 2019 · Though Miles died in 1992, two years before the Klan rally, his legacy was a huge stain on the community’s reputation; Livingston County in general and Howell in particular have always had to push back against it. (You can read Buddy Moorehouse’s wonderful piece on Miles by clicking here.) When two teenagers burned a cross on the lawn of a ...
May 23, 2005 · HOWELL, Mich., May 22 - Like the ghost of a Confederate soldier, Robert E. Miles still haunts this sleepy mid-Michigan town. It is hard for residents here to forget the times when Mr. Miles, a ...
