Edward Reed Fields
| “ | We will never have law and order in America until all Negroes are deported back to Africa and completely removed from this nation that was founded and built by the great white race. | „ |
| ~ Edward Reed Fields |
Edward Reed Fields is an american white supremacist and KKK Member.
Biography
Early life
Fields was born on the 30th September 1932 in Chicago, Illinois, and moved to Atlanta, Georgia, where he graduated from Catholic school. It was during this time he became active in far-right politics, and associated himself with the Black Front serving as a recruiter.
First political activities
Fields joined the Columbians, an anti-black and anti-Semitic group, in high school, and joined along with J. B. Stoner in the Christian Anti-Jewish Party in 1952. During his activity in this group, he served as its Executive Director. He was also a member of the American Anti-Communist Society in 1950 and 1951.
Story in the National State's Party
In 1958, Fields founded the National States' Rights Party, which wanted to re-propose racial segregation and white supremacy. He served as its National Director while Stoner served as its National Chairman. Also, Fields edited the party's newspaper, "The Thunderbolt".
Work with the Alabama's government
Fields and the National States' Rights Party in 1963 were enlisted by Alabama Gov. George Wallace and state public safety chief Albert Lingo to create pretexts that Wallace used to order closed public schools that were slated for integration and to deploy state troopers—over the objections of local authorities—in communities otherwise determined to comply with federal court orders to desegregate.
The letter to Bill Baxley
In 1976, following Alabama Attorney General Bill Baxley's opening of prosecution against the bombers of the 16th Street Baptist Church in Birmingham, Fields wrote a letter to Baxley, referring to him with a racial slur and threatening to assassinate him. Baxley responded with his own letter the following day, telling Fields to kiss his ass.
Exiting the party
Following J. B. Stoner's imprisonment for his involvement in the 1958 Bethel Baptist Church bombing, Fields lost faith in the party and was expelled from the party in August 1983 for prosecute his activity with Ku Klux Klan. He continued his journalistic career with the newspaper "The Truth At Last".
Activity in other parties
Fields founded the white supremacist America First Party in 1993, and spoke at the Populist Party's 1994 convention.
Funeral of Byron De La Beckwith
Fields attended the 2001 funeral of Klansman Byron De La Beckwith, who murdered civil rights activist Medgar Evers.
Trivia
- Fields attended law school in Atlanta, but dropped out in 1953.
- When he was young, he attended the Palmer College of Chiropractic and graduated in 1957 and began practicing as a chiropractor, but this activity ended when he started to become more active in his political activism.