ABSTRACT
The 1950s were a key moment for the American extreme right. The Brown decision was crucial to the revival of the Ku Klux Klan, while subsequently first the Liberty Lobby, then the National States Rights Party, then the American Nazi Party, emerged as key organizations. But if the decade was key for the extreme right, it was central too for two other strands of the right. In part, the rise of these other strands would give the extreme right real opportunities. But it would also present it with great obstacles.
