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Hate bus. When the Freedom Riders drove their campaign for the desegregation of bus stations in the Deep South, Rockwell secured a Volkswagen van and decorated it with slogans supporting white supremacy, dubbing it the "Hate Bus" and driving it to speaking engagements and party rallies.
- 1941–1960
- American Nazi Party
Mar 26, 2014 · The “Hate” Bus was the disturbing idea of George Lincoln Rockwell, whose name is proudly plastered all over the bus. He was the founder of the American Nazi Party, calling for “white power” and racial segregation.
Sep 3, 2017 · George Lincoln Rockwell, center, self-styled leader of the American Nazi Party, and his “hate bus” bearing several young men wearing swastika arm bands, stops for gas in Montgomery, Ala., May 23,...
Feb 5, 2017 · Updated November 9, 2023. The American Nazi Party. Bettmann / Contributor via Getty Images George Lincoln Rockwell (right) and followers pose next to their Hate Bus — a Volkswagen they use to drive around the country and spread their message — in Seven Corners, Virginia, on May 23, 1961.
- John Kuroski
Aug 21, 2017 · Shortly before noon on Aug. 25, 1967, a pale ’58 Chevy pulled into a shopping center in Arlington. Out stepped one of the most hated men in America. As the founder of the American Nazi Party,...
Feb 5, 2017 · When future American Nazi Party founder George Lincoln Rockwell first heard that Senator Joseph McCarthy was embarking upon a witch hunt to ferret out suspected communism and homosexuality in the U.S. government during the 1950s “Red Scare,” he reacted differently than most.
In the middle of the twentieth century, George Lincoln Rockwell, a disgraced former naval commander and disowned son of a prominent vaudeville comedian, created a bridge between the racial ideology of Adolf Hitler ’s Third Reich and the racism of postwar America, thus facilitating the emergence of the contemporary white supremacist movement.