A College is Host to an Agitator for Genocide

New York: Jewish Youth Club "Hemshekh" [1962]. A flyer protesting an invitation from the strangely named “Competency Party,” a student group at Hunter College in the Bronx, to American Nazi Party founder, George Lincoln Rockwell. Rockwell was one of four speakers invited to an event held on April 11, 1962, the others being Gus Hall of the Communist Party, Elijah Muhammad and William F. Buckley. The Jewish Youth Club “Hemshekh” argues that providing a platform for Rockwell “means spitting in the face of the Jewish people and affronting the Negro race.” They urge others to join a picket organized by the “United Jewish Survivors of Nazi Persecution in the U. S.” Huge demonstrations were organized and the NYPD received a letter threatening Rockwell’s life if he should appear. Hoping to dissuade him from coming, the NYPD threatened Rockwell with arrest on a two-year-old warrant if he entered the city. Rockwell thought better of being arrested and instead sent ANP member, Seth Ryan, to give a speech. See Schmaltz (For Race and Nation, p. 161).

An 8 ½” x 11” pulp sheet printed recto only. Browning to paper stock, a few tiny nibbles along the bottom edge. No record for this specific flyer in OCLC. Item #08252

Price: $125.00