James Stern's rise to power have confused the Neo-Nazi group's members because Stern and the former president have not spoken publicly since the paperwork was filed in mid-February.
FILE-In this Thursday, June 14, 2012 file photo, James Stern of Jackson, Miss., at a news conference in Jackson, Miss. One of the largest and oldest neo-Nazi groups in the U.S. appears to have an unlikely new leader: Stern, a black activist who has vowed to dismantle it.
Schoep was concerned about the repercussions of the Charlottesville lawsuit and the legal bills he was shouldering, Stern said, and he confided in the California activist for solutions. While serving prison time in Mississippi for mail fraud, Stern was cell mates with onetime Ku Klux Klan leader Edgar Ray Killen, who was convicted in the famed “Mississippi Burning” killings of three civil rights workers. Stern said Killen regularly called him the n-word in the year and a half they lived together, but the two nevertheless formed a relationship.
"From day one, I always told him: ‘I don’t agree with you, I don’t like you,’” Stern said. “I talked to him because I wanted to hope to change him.” The group distinguished itself by wearing faux SS uniforms that mirror those worn in Nazi Germany. It was founded under a different name in 1974 by two former officials of the American Nazi Party, according to the Southern Poverty Law Center.
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