The White Report

A League of Their Own: A Look Inside the Christian Defense League
by David Boylan [2004]
The United States during the 1950s experienced an unparalleled growth of extremist organizations from the John Birch Society on the right to the Fair Play for Cuba Committee on the left. The heating up of the Cold War, the Supreme Court’s [...]

Christian Identity is the name of a religious movement uniting many of the white supremacist groups in the United States. Identity’s teachers promote racism and sometimes violence.

The men behind the rise of the Christian Defense League were Identity adherents and former Klansmen Wesley Swift and San Jacinto Capt along with Colonel William Potter Gale. According to Gale the idea behind the CDL was proposed in a letter by Capt titled: ‘The NAACP represents the negro; the ADL represents the Jews; who [...]