Duke University to House Hate Group Archives of the Southern Poverty Law Center

SPLC_CMSThe Southern Poverty Law Center in Montgomery, Alabama, has donated its collection of extremist literature to the David M. Rubenstein Rare Book and Manuscript Library at Duke University. The Southern Poverty Law Center is the nation’s leading information resource on white supremacists and other hate groups.

The collection includes more than 90 boxes of materials that include periodicals, pamphlets, flyers, and other documents that hate groups in the United States have sent to members and recruits over the past 30 years. The collection includes literature from groups such as the Ku Klux Klan, skinheads, neo-Nazi organizations and White supremacist groups.

The collection will be made available to researchers once it has been catalogued.

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