Back Сярэбраныя кашулі Byelorussian Silver Shirts German Legión de Plata Spanish Zilarrezko Legioa Basque Silver Shirts French הלגיון הכסוף של אמריקה HE Legione d'argento d'America Italian The Silver Legion of America Polish Серебряные рубашки Russian Срібний легіон Америки Ukrainian
Silver Legion of America | |
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| Other name | Silver Shirts |
| Leader | William Dudley Pelley[1] |
| Founded | January 31, 1933[2] |
| Dissolved | 1941 |
| Headquarters | Asheville, North Carolina[3] |
| Publications | • Liberation • Pelley's Silvershirt Weekly • The Galilean • The New Liberator |
| Political wing | Christian Party[4][5] |
| Membership | 15,000 (c. 1934)[6][7] 100,000 (claimed)[8] |
| Ideology | Christian fascism Clerical fascism[9] Racial segregation[10] White nationalism[11] Non-interventionism[12] |
| Political position | Radical right[13][14] Far-right |
| Religion | Christianity |
| Active regions | Small communities in the Midwest and small communities in the Pacific Northwest[15][16] Murphy Ranch, California (rumored)[17] |
| Colors | Silver, scarlet and blue |
| Slogan | "Loyalty, Liberation, and Legion" |
| Anthem | "Battle Hymn of the Republic" |
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The Silver Legion of America, commonly known as the Silver Shirts, was an American pro-fascist and pro-Nazi organization which was founded by William Dudley Pelley and headquartered in Asheville, North Carolina.[18]
- ^ Beekman, Scott (2005-10-17). William Dudley Pelley: A Life in Right-Wing Extremism and the Occult. Syracuse University Press. pp. 2–3, 80–81, 87, 94, 162, 174, 206. ISBN 978-0-8156-0819-6.
- ^ Elliston, J. (2019, July 15). Asheville's Fascist. Retrieved from https://wncmagazine.com/feature/asheville’s_fascist
- ^ http://www.ajcarchives.org/AJC_DATA/Files/THR-SS1.PDF Archived 2020-07-21 at the Wayback Machine "The Silver Shirts: Their History, Founder, and Axtivities". August 24, 1933
- ^ Schultz, Will (2020). William Dudley Pelley (1885–1965). North Carolina History Project.
- ^ Barkun, Michael (1997). Religion and the Racist Right: The Origins of the Christian Identity Movement. UNC Press Books. p. 91. ISBN 978-0807846384.
- ^ "Silver Shirts". Holocaust Online. Archived from the original on 15 November 2017. Retrieved 14 November 2017.
- ^ Bernstein, Arnie (October 7, 2013). "6 Things You May Not Have Known About Nazis in America". The History Reader. Retrieved November 14, 2017.
- ^ Schultz, Will (7 March 2016). "William Dudley Pelley (1885–1965)". North Carolina History Project. Retrieved November 14, 2017.
- ^ Schultz, Will (7 March 2016). "William Dudley Pelley (1885–1965)". North Carolina History Project. Retrieved November 14, 2017.
- ^ Lemmon, Sarah McCulloh (December 1951). "The Ideology of the 'Dixiecrat' Movement". Social Forces. 30 (2): 162–71. doi:10.2307/2571628. JSTOR 2571628.
- ^ Lobb, David (1999). "Fascist apocalypse: William Pelley and millennial extremism" (PDF). Journal of Millennial Studies. 2 (2). ISSN 1099-2731. Archived from the original (PDF) on May 15, 2011. Retrieved May 8, 2015.
- ^ Van Ells, Mark D. (August 2007). "Americans for Hitler". americainwwii.com. Retrieved 18 November 2012.
- ^ David Brion Davis, ed. The Fear of Conspiracy: Images of Un-American Subversion from the Revolution to the present (1971) pp. xviii–xix
- ^ Diamond, pp. 5–6
- ^ Lipset & Raab, pp. 162–64
- ^ Toy, Eckard V. Jr. (1989). "Silver Shirts in the Northwest: Politics, Prophecies, and Personalities in the 1930s". The Pacific Northwest Quarterly. 80 (4): 139–146. JSTOR 40491076.
- ^ "The Would-Be Nazi Stronghold Hidden in the Hills of L.A." 27 February 2014.
- ^ "The Silver Shirts: Their History, Founder, and Activities" Archived 2020-07-21 at the Wayback Machine. August 24, 1933
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