ABSTRACT
As the National Socialist White People’s Party (NSWPP) splintered, those who left formed a number of new, small neo-Nazi groups which have been largely undocumented by scholars. Especially during the period between 1974 and 1978, they unsuccessfully attempted to overtake their parent party. In 1975, James Mason co-founded the National Socialist Movement (NSM) with the intention of promoting armed struggle among the neo-Nazi splinters. The other groups that were active at this time included the National Socialist Liberation Front (NSLF), founded by Joseph Tommasi and later led by David Rust; Allen Vincent’s National Socialist White Workers Party (NSWWP); and the National Socialist Party of America (NSPA), led by Frank Collin. The last of these would gain national attention for the Skokie incident, where the party won a Supreme Court case which allowed them to march in the heavily Jewish suburb of Skokie, Illinois. During this time, these groups took part in the National Socialist Congress in an attempt to create an umbrella vehicle, but partly because of Mason’s in-fighting it quickly fell apart. He then turned his attention to working with another umbrella group, the White Confederacy, which included both neo-Nazis and other White Supremacist groups.
