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List of organizations designated by the Southern Poverty Law Center as hate groups. The following is a list of U.S.-based organizations that are classified as hate groups by the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC). [ 1 ] The SPLC is an American nonprofit legal advocacy organization specializing in civil rights and public interest litigation.
The Canadian Anti-Hate Network is a nonprofit organization that monitors hate groups in Canada. [8][9][10][11] Number of SPLC hate groups per million, as of 2013. According to the SPLC, from 2000 to 2008, hate group activity saw a 50 percent increase in the US, with a total of 926 active groups. [12] In 2019, the organization's report showed a ...
The Ku Klux Klan (/ ˌ k uː k l ʌ k s ˈ k l æ n, ˌ k j uː-/), [e] commonly shortened to the KKK or the Klan, is the name of several historical and current American white supremacist, far-right terrorist organizations and hate groups. Various historians, including Fergus Bordewich, have characterized the Klan as America's first terrorist ...
Hate and extremism in Georgia was on the rise in 2023, according to the results of an annual report released this week by the Southern Poverty Law Center that tracks extremist groups across the U.S.
The JNS reported in 2023 that America was experiencing the worst eruption of antisemitism in its 250 year history. [320] Jews were the religious group that faced the most hate crime in the United States in 2022 according to an FBI report. [321] FBI director said that 60% of religious based hate crimes were on Jews. [322]
Statewide groups. American Nationalist Socialist Party: Neo-Nazi. American Reformation Front: General hate. Aryan Freedom Network: Neo-Nazi. Asatru Folk Assembly: Neo-Völkisch.
Hate crime laws in the United States are state and federal laws intended to protect against hate crimes (also known as bias crimes). While state laws vary, current statutes permit federal prosecution of hate crimes committed on the basis of a person's characteristics of race, religion, ethnicity, disability, nationality, gender, sexual orientation, and/or gender identity.
A gathering of White supremacists who are members of the Ku Klux Klan (KKK) in Baltimore in 1923. Designated as a far-right terrorist organization, the KKK first emerged in the American South in the 19th century and it is widely considered the most notorious anti-Black hate group in the country, reaching its peak with approximately six million members in the 1920s.