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Early lifeEdit

Black was born in Athens, Alabama, and became a white supremacy advocate at an early age when he began handing out swastika-adorned pamphlets from the National Socialist White People's Party at his high school, Athens High School, before transferring to Madison Academy in the fall of 1970 in order to avoid attending school with black students. This led to a decision by the local school board to ban the distribution of political literature. Black countered by mailing literature to student addresses obtained from school handbooks.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref><ref>Template:Cite news</ref>

In the summer of 1970, after his junior year at Athens High School, Black traveled to Savannah, Georgia, to work on the gubernatorial campaign of J. B. Stoner, a segregationist and leader of the National States' Rights Party (NSRP). It was in this election that Jimmy Carter won the Georgia governorship. Black was asked to obtain a copy of the NSRP membership list by Robert Lloyd, a leader of the National Socialist White People's Party, formerly known as the American Nazi Party.<ref>H. Michael Barrett. "The 1970 Split In The NSWPP: A First Hand Account"</ref> At the time, Black was a member of the Party's youth branch, the National Socialist Youth Movement.

Also working on the Stoner campaign was Jerry Ray, brother of James Earl Ray, who committed the assassination of Martin Luther King Jr. On July 25, 1970, Jerry Ray shot Black (who was 16 at the time) in the chest with a .38-caliber hollow-point bullet to stop him from taking files from Stoner's campaign office.<ref name="IRBio">Template:Cite news</ref> Ray was acquitted of all charges, saying he shot in self-defense after Black reached for what appeared to be a weapon.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref><ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref><ref>"Earl Ray's Kin Acquitted On Assault Charge", Press-Courier, November 27, 1970</ref>

Black finished his senior year at Madison Academy, a private school in Huntsville. Then after high school, Black graduated from the University of Alabama in Tuscaloosa in 1975.<ref name="ADLBio">Template:Cite news</ref> In the early 1970s, Black traveled on a road trip to an American Nazi Party conference in Virginia with fellow white supremacists David Duke and Joseph Paul Franklin (the latter of who was later convicted of multiple acts of racial and antisemitic terrorism and executed for serial murder).<ref name="slowburn_s04e02">Template:Cite podcast</ref>

The Ku Klux Klan and Operation Red DogEdit

Black joined the Knights of the Ku Klux Klan in 1975, one year after David Duke took over the organization. He moved to Birmingham to become the group's state organizer. After the resignation of Duke in 1980,<ref>Template:Cite news</ref> Black became Grand Wizard, or national director, of the Klan. In 1979, he ran for mayor of Birmingham, receiving 2.5% of the vote.<ref>"Parsons, Arrington In Runoff", Gadsden Times, October 11, 1979</ref> Richard Arrington Jr. won the mayoral election, becoming Birmingham's first African American mayor.<ref>"Birmingham Gets First Black Mayor", Eugene Register-Guard, October 31, 1979</ref>

On April 27, 1981, Black and nine other would-be mercenaries – many recruited from Klan affiliated organizations – were arrested in New Orleans as they prepared to board a boat stocked with weapons and ammunition to invade the island nation Dominica in what they would call Operation Red Dog.<ref>Operation Red Dog is the subject of Stewart Bell, Bayou of Pigs: The True Story of an Audacious Plot to Turn a Tropical Island into a Criminal Paradise (John Wiley & Sons, 2008).</ref> Local media labeled the botched attempt the "Bayou of Pigs", a play on words for the unsuccessful 1961 "Bay of Pigs Invasion" of Cuba.

Black later explained the invasion as an attempt to set up an anti-communist regime, saying, "What we were doing was in the best interests of the United States and its security in the hemisphere, and we feel betrayed by our own government."<ref name=racistnextdoor/> The invasion was intended to restore former prime minister Patrick John to the mostly black Caribbean island. Prosecutors said the real purpose for the invasion would have been to set up tourism, gambling, offshore banking, and timber logging operations on the impoverished island.

In 1981, Black was sentenced to three years in prison for his role in the attempted invasion and his violation of the Neutrality Act.<ref>"Conspirators Get Three Years", Star-News, July 23, 1981</ref><ref>"U.S. Prosectors Pushing Hunt for Backers of Dominica Coup", Record-Journal, June 22, 1981</ref> Black, Federal Bureau of Prisons #16692-034 was initially incarcerated at Federal Correctional Institution, Tucson.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> In 1983, he was transferred to Federal Correctional Institution, Big Spring.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref><ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> He was released on November 15, 1984.<ref>"Stephen D Black" Template:Webarchive. Federal Bureau of Prisons. Retrieved on December 2, 2010.</ref> During his time in prison, Black took computer programming classes which led him to establish Stormfront on the Internet years later.<ref name=racistnextdoor/>

He unsuccessfully ran for office in Alabama, this time as a Populist Party U.S. Senate candidate.<ref>"Fringe Party Offers Help to Candidate", Miami Herald - August 11, 1990</ref><ref>"Klansmen See Populist Party as Best Vechile, Candidate Says", South Florida Sun - Sentinel, April 16, 1990</ref>

StormfrontEdit

Template:Main article In 1995, Black founded Stormfront, which was the Internet's first significant website espousing racial hate. It remains among the most popular online resources for those drawn to racist ideologies.<ref name="scope">Cohen-Almagor, Raphael. The Scope of Tolerance: Studies on the costs of free expression and freedom of the press. Routledge, 2005. 254.</ref> The site has featured the writings of William Luther Pierce and David Duke as well as works by the Holocaust denying Institute for Historical Review and the Culture of Critique series. At first, along with these articles, Stormfront housed a library of white pride, neo-Nazi, and white power skinhead graphics for downloading, and a number of links to other white nationalist websites.

In a 1998 interview for the alternative weekly newspaper Miami New Times, Black said: "We want to take America back. We know a multicultural Yugoslav nation can't hold up for too long. Whites won't have any choice but to take military action. It's our children whose interests we have to defend."<ref name="racistnextdoor">Template:Cite news (Stormfront copy of original article)</ref><ref>Template:Cite news</ref>

In 1999, Black created the website "martinlutherking.org", which is administered by Stormfront.<ref>Ibanga, Imaeyen (June 12, 2009). "Hate Groups Effectively Use Web as a Recruiting Tool", abcnews.go.com; accessed May 27, 2016.</ref> This website was created to malign the character of Dr King. In January 2018, the site remained online and surpassed sites containing reliable content in Google search results.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref>

In December 2007, Black gained attention for donating money to Ron Paul's 2008 presidential run.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>

In 2008, Black said that the establishment of white pride as a special interest group within the Republican Party is crucial.<ref name="calabresi">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }} Quote from Black: "Non è più tempo per cercare di creare un terzo partito destinato alla marginalità, dobbiamo presentarci ad ogni elezione primaria dentro il partito repubblicano così da imporre i nostri temi nel dibattito, dobbiamo lavorare per creare un nostro gruppo di interesse, per restaurare le tradizioni e i veri valori bianchi". This translates as: "There is no more time to try to create a third party for the marginalized, we must enter every primary election within the Republican Party to impose our issues in the debate, we must work to create our special interest group, to restore tradition and true white values."</ref> Asked by an interviewer for Italian newspaper la Repubblica if Stormfront was not just the new Ku Klux Klan, Black responded: "Yes, that's how it is", though he noted that he would never say so to an American journalist.<ref name="calabresi" />

On May 5, 2009, it was announced that Black was one of 22 on a British Home Office list of individuals banned from entering the United Kingdom<ref>"Home Office name hate promoters excluded from the UK" Template:Webarchive, Home Office Press Release, May 5, 2009</ref> for "promoting serious criminal activity and fostering hatred that might lead to inter-community violence".<ref name=BBC /><ref>"Who is on UK 'least wanted' list?", BBC News, May 5, 2009. Retrieved on 2009-05-06.</ref>

The Stormfront forum acts as one of the largest online gatherings of racism and Holocaust deniers in the world, with threads on this theme gaining hundreds of thousands of views.<ref>Template:Cite book</ref> A number of radio shows published by Black's web site have featured Holocaust denial.

FamilyEdit

In 2008, various media outlets reported that Black's wife, Chloe, worked as an executive assistant for sugar baron José Fanjul who runs the Florida Crystals company and owns a real estate business in Latin American countries. In particular, her job duties included acting as the spokesperson for a charter school "to lift underprivileged black and Hispanic children out of poverty."<ref name="fox">Template:Cite news</ref> The story resulted in Black being criticized by some other white nationalists.<ref name="fox" /><ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>

In August 2008, Black's 19-year-old child Adrianne Black was elected to one of 111 seats on the Palm Beach County, Florida Republican committee, with 167 of 287 votes.<ref name="nytpbc">Template:Cite news</ref><ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref><ref>"Black & White". Toronto Star, pages IN6-7. Eli Saslow.</ref> The committee however, refused to seat Black, citing a loyalty oath she failed to sign before registering her candidacy. The oath states candidates must refrain from activities "likely to injure the name of the Republican Party."<ref name="nytpbc"/> She hosted the Derek Black Show weekdays on a local West Palm Beach, Florida AM radio station, WPBR, to which Don Black paid $600 a week to broadcast content on. The radio show ended in January 2013, with Adrianne Black appearing on few episodes over the last year.<ref name="Contributions">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref><ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>

By summer 2013, Adrianne Black had called into question her racist ideologies,<ref name="Potok">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref><ref>Template:Cite news</ref> and she began to renounce white supremacism and issued an apology to those harmed by her previous actions and beliefs.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref><ref name="Potok2">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> Her renunciation reportedly shocked her father and like-minded people.<ref name="Potok3">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> By 2016, Adrianne Black had fully renounced her white nationalist views and was actively speaking out against such views in the press.<ref name="WASHPO1">Template:Cite news</ref><ref name="NYT-opinion">Template:Cite news</ref> Washington Post staff writer Eli Saslow detailed the ideological transformation of Adrianne which began with the rejection of her family, moving to Michigan and assuming a new name and eventually becoming a Ph.D. student at the University of Chicago, studying Medieval Islam.<ref>Template:Cite book</ref>

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