A History of Hate: Pride and prejudice

A History of Hate: Pride and prejudice

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.
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Quiz: Hate Groups

Learn about the origins of organizations dedicated to discrimination.

 
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Video: Pride & Prejudice

The first in our three-part series examining the growing popularity of white supremacy groups.

 
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Video: Pride & Prejudice Part 2

Steven Fabian goes to Germany to find out more about "New" Nazis.

 
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Video: Pride & Prejudice: Immigration

A look at how white supremacy groups are taking their fight against illegal immgartion to the Arizona border.

 
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Video: Pride & Prejudice: Recruiting Teens

How one white sumpremacist group targets young people for membership.

 
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Video: Inside the Protests

Steven Fabian reports from Phoenix, AZ.

 
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Video: Pepper Spray

What the protesters are chanting and why they might be violent.

 
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Video: Rock Throwing

Our camera gets hit by a protester throwing rocks.

 
 


 

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