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SUMMARY - he National States Rights Party (NSRP), formed in July, 1958, in Knoxville, Tennesse, of segregationist and anti-Semitic elewents, has a current menubership of about 150 active wueabers located in approximately a dozen states, Its national headquarters is in Savannah, Georgia, The NSRP is based on racism and bigotry, with blacks and Jews as its main hate targets, Blacks are regarded as inferior and polluting the white race, while Jews are equated with communists, subverting the Government and aiding the blacks, Law enforcement bodies, especially the FBI, are viewed with great hostility by the NSRP, Members are urged to acquire firearms and become proficient in their use in order to protect themselves against the blacks, Consonant with a policy of violence advocated by the NSRP, ite leaders have helped to trigger outbreaks of violence, most recently in September, 1968, in Berea, Kentucky, where one white and one black were slain during an arsed confrontation between NSRP members and local blacks, The dominant figures in the NSRP during ita entire existence have been Edward Reed Fields, its National Director, and Jesse Benjamin Stoner, its National Chairman, Both have lengthy backgrounds of hatemongering. NSRP public activities include rallies, demonstrations, counterdemonstrations, and political campaigns, It publishes acurrilously antiblack, anti-Jewish, and anti-Administration —_ literature, chiefly in its monthly mouchpiece, "The Thunderbolt," Close relations exist between the NSRP and other white extremist groups, particularly Klan organizations, A number of individuals hold membership in both the NSRP and Klan groups, ii