Prior to the #OverlandParkShooting, he served three years in federal prison on weapons charges in connection with plans to commit robberies and assassinate SPLC co-founder Morris Dees. As part of a plea deal, he testified against other Klan members in a 1988sedition trial.
ugly #AmericanHistory
5/5
He was successfully sued by the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) for operating an illegal paramilitary organization and for using intimidation tactics against African Americans.
#OverlandParkShooting
ugly #AmericanHistory
#WhiteSupremacy bullshit
4/5
Miller (aka Cross) was a retired Army veteran and Green Beret, founder and former leader of both the Carolina Knights of the Ku Klux Klan and the White Patriot Party, which he ran as paramilitary organizations in the 1980s.
#OverlandParkShooting
ugly #AmericanHistory
#WhiteSupremacy bullshit
3/5
THREE people were killed in the #OverlandParkShooting, including a 14-year-old Eagle Scout and his grandfather. All of the fatalities were Christians. Because Miller (aka Cross) was fucking stupid as well as antisemitic.
ugly #AmericanHistory
#WhiteSupremacy bullshit
2/5
#OTD in #History 2014
April 13: #OverlandParkShooting
Context: Frazier Glenn Miller (aka Frazier Glenn Cross), opened fire at a Jewish community center & a Jewish retirement community in a suburb of Kansas City.
Facts: Miller (a.k.a. Cross) was a longtime #WhiteSupremacist and anti-Semite.
1/5
Prior to the #OverlandParkShooting, he served three years in federal prison on weapons charges in connection with plans to commit robberies and assassinate SPLC co-founder Morris Dees. As part of a plea deal, he testified against other Klan members in a 1988sedition trial.
ugly #AmericanHistory
5/5
He was successfully sued by the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) for operating an illegal paramilitary organization and for using intimidation tactics against African Americans.
#OverlandParkShooting
ugly #AmericanHistory
#WhiteSupremacy bullshit
4/5
Miller (aka Cross) was a retired Army veteran and Green Beret, founder and former leader of both the Carolina Knights of the Ku Klux Klan and the White Patriot Party, which he ran as paramilitary organizations in the 1980s.
#OverlandParkShooting
ugly #AmericanHistory
#WhiteSupremacy bullshit
3/5
THREE people were killed in the #OverlandParkShooting, including a 14-year-old Eagle Scout and his grandfather. All of the fatalities were Christians. Because Miller (aka Cross) was fucking stupid as well as antisemitic.
ugly #AmericanHistory
#WhiteSupremacy bullshit
2/5
#OTD in #History 2014
April 13: #OverlandParkShooting
Context: Frazier Glenn Miller (aka Frazier Glenn Cross), opened fire at a Jewish community center & a Jewish retirement community in a suburb of Kansas City.
Facts: Miller (a.k.a. Cross) was a longtime #WhiteSupremacist and anti-Semite.
1/5
