“If you join a pro-white group that promotes the history, heritage, or culture of the white race, you are given thumbs down and called a hater and a racist.”

—Charles Lee, Grand Dragon of the Knights of the White Kamellia, Ku Klux Klan, in Soldiers of God,1998

“Hate groups can spawn violence even when they do not directly participate in the crimes.”

—Morris Dees and Ellen Bowden, Trial, February 1995

Mulugeta Seraw, an Ethiopian immigrant, was killed by three white skinheads in Portland, Oregon, in November 1988. Two years later, Tom Metzger, leader of the White Aryan Resistance (WAR), and his son John were found liable for Seraw’s murder in a civil suit because they recruited the skinheads and encouraged them to participate in violent behavior against nonwhites. In Fayetteville, North Carolina, James Burmeister, a soldier and self-described skinhead, shot and killed...