On its website, its says Hammer City will create a “city for all people of color to be free” with no “discrimination of nationality, gender, age or mental/physical differences.” (n.d.).Black Hammer has named its ethnostate Hammer City. Salt Lake City, UT: Signature Books in association with Smith Research Associates. The Mormon hierarchy: extensions of power. The Black Hammer: A Study of Black Power, Red Influence and White Alternatives.
^ Ezra Taft Benson, "Trade and Treason," Christian Crusade 19 (Apr.For background on Hargis, see John Harold Redekop, The American Far Right: A Case Study of Billy James Hargis and Christian Crusade (Grand Rapids, MI: William B. 20-24,” advertisement in Tulsa Daily World, 19 Feb.
For Benson’s participation with Hargis and his Christian Crusade, see “This Week! 5 Great Nights of Christian Leadership Training: Christian Crusade Leadership School-Feb. “Ezra Taft Benson Addresses Rally,” Deseret News, 7 Jan. The Southern Poverty Law Center has labeled the book as "vicious and racist". The book portrays African-Americans as victims rather than perpetrators of the communist plot, stating that they are "ready and willing to take any Negro by the hand and help him into an era of self-proprietorship that every deserving American can achieve." Reception The book sarcastically criticized the legislation as reducing black self-reliance and fed into "the Negro's need for complete subservience to the Great White Fathers in Washington." The book is dismissive of the civil rights legislation, warning that the organized efforts for civil rights were "part of the 100 year old Communist program for the enslavement of America," and that there existed "well-defined plans for the establishment of a Negro Soviet dictatorship in the South." Quinn also speculates that the endorsement of this book by Benson may have been an attempt to curry favor with segregationist George Wallace, who did ask Benson to be his vice-presidential running mate for his 1968 campaign.
President, with segregationist Strom Thurmond as his running mate. Michael Quinn notes that Benson's endorsement of the book came at the time when the John Birch Society was making efforts to nominate Benson for U.S. Benson approved this talk to be used as the foreword to the book. In 1967 Benson gave a talk discussing his views on the civil rights movement at the anti-Communist/segregationist leadership school of Billy James Hargis, who published it in his Christian Crusade magazine.
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