Alarmed at the progress of the NAACP in general, and more particularly of Thurgood Marshall, in the fight against Jim Crow, Hendrix had formed, by his claim, an “American Confederate Army” of ninety-seven cohorts in thirty-one states, all of them prepared to bear arms in the event that the Supreme Court outlawed segregation. At the rally that evening, Hendrix’s “rebel army” voted in support of three measures in its avowed purpose to forestall justice for all: 1. denounce the NAACP and Anti-Defamation League as “hate groups”; 2. retain the hood, robe, and mask as official uniform; and 3. keep
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