Active Hate Groups in the United States
- Title:
- Active Hate Groups in the United States
- Alternate Title:
- Active Hate Groups in the United States
- Collection:
- Persuasive Maps: PJ Mode Collection
- Creator:
- Southern Poverty Law Center
- Date:
- 2017
- Date 2:
- 2024-04-25
- ID Number:
- 2304.01
- File Name:
- PJM_2304_01.jpg
- Style/Period:
- 1960 - Present
- Subject:
- Bias
- Measurement:
- 30 x 46 (centimeters, height x width)
- Notes:
- This map published by the Southern Poverty Law Center summarizes the breadth and nature of 917 active hate groups in the U.S. in February 2017. Separate symbols are used for groups whose views are Black Separatists, Ku Klux Klan, Anti-Muslim, White Nationalists, Neo-Nazi, etc.
Details about the map are provided in Potok, Mark, “The Year in Hate and Extremism,” in the SPLC’s periodical Intelligence Report, Spring 2017. This 27-page article provides, among other things, the names of each of the various groups, for example, “Deir Yasmin Remembered,” a holocaust denial organization based in Geneva, NY.
For a 1941 broadside identifying organizations making up a Nazi "Fifth Column" in the U.S., see ID #2355, "The Nazi Spider Attempts to Grasp Our Nation in Its Tentacles."
What matters on this map is not the specific geographic location of any group, but the pervasiveness of the subject - its size, scope and dispersion. The collection includes a number of such maps. In some cases, maps of this kind are intended to reflect favorably on the phenomenon illustrated, for example, the British Empire (ID #1167); cultural Germans in Easter Europe (ID #1264); nations supporting the U.S. war in Vietnam (ID #2042). More often, the mapmaker’s message is unmistakably critical, for example the number of prison and slave labor camps in the Soviet Union (ID ##1330, 1337, 1345, 1346) and Bulgaria (ID #2113); Communist, Nazi and other Fascist groups in pre-World War II America (ID #2294); hate groups in America (ID ##2304), 2497.
For further information on the Collector’s Notes and a Feedback/Contact Link, see https://persuasivemaps.library.cornell.edu/content/about-collection-personal-statement and https://persuasivemaps.library.cornell.edu/content/feedback-and-contact - Source:
- Potok, Mark. “The Year in Hate and Extremism,” Southern Poverty Law Center, Intelligence Report, Spring 2017, 36-62.
- Format:
- Image
- Rights:
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