Updated: April 05, 2011
The Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC), an organization with its origins in the civil rights movement that now "tracks the activities of hate groups and domestic terrorists" labels the National Socialist Movement and organizations like it as hate groups.According to the FBI, which also tracks and investigates these groups, the words "hate crime" and "hate group" entered our vocabulary in the 1980s, when groups calling themselves "skinheads" began perpetrating crimes against specific groups of people. However, groups like them have been in existence long before that -- violence and crimes can be attributed to groups like the Ku Klux Klan since just after the Civil War.
Learn more about the history of these groups and the impact they've had in the quiz below. You can also watch our report, including behind the scenes footage, on Neo-Nazis in Arizona and Germany today.
Some of the content of this page may be disturbing because of the nature of the topic. Teachers: Don't miss the links to lessons plans on this topic below.
Video: Pride & Prejudice
The first in our three-part series examining the growing popularity of white supremacy groups.
Video: Pride & Prejudice: Immigration
A look at how white supremacy groups are taking their fight against illegal immgartion to the Arizona border.
Video: Pride & Prejudice: Recruiting Teens
How one white sumpremacist group targets young people for membership.
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