Weird Little Guys

Rabid on the Subject of Segregation: Byron de la Beckwith, Pt 4

In the months leading up to the murder of Medgar Evers, the man who killed him was watching his world crumble. Byron de la Beckwith had dedicated his life to the cause of segregation, but it was a losing battle. The governor of Mississippi had backed down, allowing a second black student to enter Ole Miss. Governor George Wallace in Alabama backed down, too. Integration was creeping in all over. That, and his wife left him.  Sources & Further Reading: Doyle, William (2001). An American Insurrection: The Battle of Oxford, Mississippi 1962. Doubleday. Lambert, Frank (2010). The Battle of Ole Miss: Civil Rights vs States’ Rights. Oxford University Press. Massengill, Reed (2024). Portrait of a racist: Byron De La Beckwith and the Assassination of Medgar Evers. Univ. of Tennessee Press. Metzl, Jonathan (2009). The Protest Psychosis: How Schizophrenia Became A Black Disease. Beacon Press. Rolph, Stephanie (2018). Resisting Equality: The Citizens' Council, 1954-1989. Louisiana State University Press Smith, Frank (1964). Congressman From Mississippi. Capricorn Books. https://archive.nytimes.com/www.nytimes.com/library/national/race/100262race-ra.html [https://archive.nytimes.com/www.nytimes.com/library/national/race/100262race-ra.html]  https://egrove.olemiss.edu/citizens_news/index.3.html [https://egrove.olemiss.edu/citizens_news/index.3.html]  https://www.southernfoodways.org/the-greenwood-food-blockade/ [https://www.southernfoodways.org/the-greenwood-food-blockade/]  https://snccdigital.org/events/leflore-county-cuts-off-surplus-commodities/ [https://snccdigital.org/events/leflore-county-cuts-off-surplus-commodities/]  https://snccdigital.org/people/dick-gregory/ [https://snccdigital.org/people/dick-gregory/]  https://www.nytimes.com/2000/04/22/us/samuel-block-60-civil-rights-battler-dies.html [https://www.nytimes.com/2000/04/22/us/samuel-block-60-civil-rights-battler-dies.html]  https://www.crmvet.org/docs/src/6210_src_ns.pdf [https://www.crmvet.org/docs/src/6210_src_ns.pdf]  https://themilitant.com/1962/2633/MIL2633.pdf [https://themilitant.com/1962/2633/MIL2633.pdf]  https://snccdigital.org/people/lawrence-guyot/ [https://snccdigital.org/people/lawrence-guyot/]  https://snccdigital.org/events/jimmy-travis-shot-greenwood/ [https://snccdigital.org/events/jimmy-travis-shot-greenwood/]  https://www.loc.gov/exhibits/civil-rights-act/multimedia/medgar-evers-and-jackson-movement.html [https://www.loc.gov/exhibits/civil-rights-act/multimedia/medgar-evers-and-jackson-movement.html]  https://www.wlbt.com/video/2026/07/15/medgar-evers-historic-1963-wlbt-speech-missing-over-six-decades/ [https://www.wlbt.com/video/2026/07/15/medgar-evers-historic-1963-wlbt-speech-missing-over-six-decades/]  https://da.mdah.ms.gov/vault/projects/OHtranscripts/AU_MP198001_119_098611.pdf [https://da.mdah.ms.gov/vault/projects/OHtranscripts/AU_MP198001_119_098611.pdf]  See omnystudio.com/listener [https://omnystudio.com/listener] for privacy information.

Black Monday: Byron de la Beckwith, Pt. 3

In 1954, the Supreme Court ruled that racial segregation in public schools was unconstitutional. Segregated schools didn't react right away, but segregationists did. Within months, the Citizens' Councils began to form in counties across Mississippi. And Byron de la Beckwith was one of the group's earliest and most enthusiastic members. Sources & Further Reading: Massengill, Reed (2024). Portrait of a racist: Byron De La Beckwith and the Assassination of Medgar Evers. Univ. of Tennessee Press. Rolph, Stephanie (2018). Resisting Equality: The Citizens' Council, 1954-1989. Louisiana State University Press Silver, James W (1963). Mississippi: The Closed Society. Harcourt Brace & World Inc. Vollers, Maryanne (1995). Ghosts of Mississippi. Little Brown & Company. Williams, Michael Vinson (2011). Medgar Evers: Mississippi Martyr. The University of Arkansas Press Cook, James Graham (1962). The Segregationists. Appleton Century Crofts McMillen, Neil (1971). The Citizens’ Council: Organized Resistance to the Second Reconstruction, 1954-1964. University of Illinois Press Mendelsohn, Jack (1966). The Martyrs. Harper & Row https://www.mississippifreepress.org/buried-truth-unresolved-disregarded-lamar-smith-murder-haunts-lincoln-county/ [https://www.mississippifreepress.org/buried-truth-unresolved-disregarded-lamar-smith-murder-haunts-lincoln-county/] Cashion, S. A. (2013). "And So We Moved Quietly": Southern Methodist University and Desegregation, 1950-1970. Graduate Theses and Dissertations Delao, Frank Delao, "Containing Communism in Texas: How the Right Interpreted the Cold War, 1945-1965" (2016).Open Access Theses & Dissertations. 633 Rich, Evelyn (1988). "Ku Klux Klan Ideology, 1954-1988" Graduate Theses and Dissertations https://supremecourthistory.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/02/Volume-37-Number-3-2012.pdf [https://supremecourthistory.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/02/Volume-37-Number-3-2012.pdf] https://usm.access.preservica.com/uncategorized/SO_eea548ac-a609-4b6f-be15-7ae300c2206b [https://usm.access.preservica.com/uncategorized/SO_eea548ac-a609-4b6f-be15-7ae300c2206b] https://www.aljazeera.com/opinions/2017/7/27/al-aqsa-one-encroachment-too-many  [https://www.aljazeera.com/opinions/2017/7/27/al-aqsa-one-encroachment-too-many] See omnystudio.com/listener [https://omnystudio.com/listener] for privacy information.

Sons of Mississippi: Byron de la Beckwith, Pt. 2

Byron de la Beckwith and Medgar Evers never met. Evers didn’t even see the man who killed him. But the man and his killer grew up a hundred miles apart, fought in the same war, worked similar jobs, and were both deeply invested in the outcome over the fight for integration. Sources & Further Reading: Massengill, Reed (2024). Portrait of a racist: Byron De La Beckwith and the Assassination of Medgar Evers. Univ. of Tennessee Press. Mendelsohn, Jack. (1966) The martyrs : sixteen who gave their lives for racial justice. Harper & Row  Vollers, Maryanne (1995). Ghosts of Mississippi. Little Brown & Company. Rolph, Stephanie (2018). Resisting Equality: The Citizens' Council, 1954-1989. Louisiana State University Press Williams, Michael Vinson (2011). Medgar Evers: Mississippi Martyr. The University of Arkansas Press Evers, Charles and Andrew Szanton (1997). Have No Fear: The Charles Evers Story. John Wiley & Sons Inc Tisale, John (1996). Medgar Evers (1925-1963) and the Mississippi Press. Doctoral Dissertation, University of North Texas Sheridan, Louis (2021) "Patriotism Betrayed: How the U.S. Military Resegregated From 1913-1939," Historical Perspectives: Santa Clara University Undergraduate Journal of History, Series II : Vol. 26, Article 11. Donaldson, Le'Trice, "A Legacy All Their Own: African American Soldiers Fight for Citizenship, Race, and Manhood, 1870-1920" (2015). Electronic Theses and Dissertations. 1167. https://digitalcommons.memphis.edu/etd/1167 [https://digitalcommons.memphis.edu/etd/1167] Hartgrove, W. B. “The Negro Soldier in the American Revolution.” The Journal of Negro History, vol. 1, no. 2, 1916, pp. 110–31. JSTOR, https://doi.org/10.2307/3035634 [https://doi.org/10.2307/3035634].  https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/1963/07/06/where-is-the-voice-coming-from [https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/1963/07/06/where-is-the-voice-coming-from] https://da.mdah.ms.gov/series/welty/welty-manuscripts/weltys08 [https://da.mdah.ms.gov/series/welty/welty-manuscripts/weltys08] https://press.bobmizer.org/releases/instant-gratification [https://press.bobmizer.org/releases/instant-gratification] https://www.nytimes.com/1994/03/20/books/my-uncle-the-bigot.html [https://www.nytimes.com/1994/03/20/books/my-uncle-the-bigot.html] https://www.history.com/articles/battle-of-tarawa [https://www.history.com/articles/battle-of-tarawa] https://dpaa-mil.sites.crmforce.mil/Tarawa/InvasionCasualties [https://dpaa-mil.sites.crmforce.mil/Tarawa/InvasionCasualties] https://www.nationalww2museum.org/war/articles/marine-killed-battle-tarawa-laid-rest-80-years-later [https://www.nationalww2museum.org/war/articles/marine-killed-battle-tarawa-laid-rest-80-years-later] https://www.oyez.org/about-audio [https://www.oyez.org/about-audio]  https://www.army.mil/article/97705/black_soldiers_in_the_revolutionary_war [https://www.army.mil/article/97705/black_soldiers_in_the_revolutionary_war] https://diaryofahistorian.com/2013/03/05/for-evers-his-is-a-story-that-must-be-told-and-retold-too-few-young-people-know-his-story-and-that-is-a-tragedy-greater-than-his-untimely-death/ [https://diaryofahistorian.com/2013/03/05/for-evers-his-is-a-story-that-must-be-told-and-retold-too-few-young-people-know-his-story-and-that-is-a-tragedy-greater-than-his-untimely-death/] https://rediscovering-black-history.blogs.archives.gov/2021/11/10/african-american-seamen-of-the-antebellum-era/ [https://rediscovering-black-history.blogs.archives.gov/2021/11/10/african-american-seamen-of-the-antebellum-era/] https://www.armyupress.army.mil/Portals/7/combat-studies-institute/csi-books/CombatMultipliers.pdf [https://www.armyupress.army.mil/Portals/7/combat-studies-institute/csi-books/CombatMultipliers.pdf] See omnystudio.com/listener [https://omnystudio.com/listener] for privacy information.

CZM Rewind: The Roommates & In Minecraft

It's a Weird Little Guys classic episode - the story of the Atomwaffen member who murdered two other Atomwaffen members. Stay tuned until the end for some updates to the story. Sources & Further Reading: https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/67075979/united-states-v-clendaniel/ [https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/67075979/united-states-v-clendaniel/] https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/71119306/united-states-v-brandon-russell/ https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/71119306/united-states-v-brandon-russell/ [https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/71119306/united-states-v-brandon-russell/] https://www.vice.com/en/article/white-power-newsletter-neo-nazi-accelerationism-behind-bars/ https://www.vice.com/en/article/white-power-newsletter-neo-nazi-accelerationism-behind-bars/ [https://www.vice.com/en/article/white-power-newsletter-neo-nazi-accelerationism-behind-bars/] https://www.politico.com/news/2024/02/13/fbi-surveillance-terrorist-attack-00141200 https://www.politico.com/news/2024/02/13/fbi-surveillance-terrorist-attack-00141200 [https://www.politico.com/news/2024/02/13/fbi-surveillance-terrorist-attack-00141200] https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/how-did-a-convicted-neo-nazi-release-propaganda-from-prison-628437/ https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/how-did-a-convicted-neo-nazi-release-propaganda-from-prison-628437/ [https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/how-did-a-convicted-neo-nazi-release-propaganda-from-prison-628437/] The Roommates In 2017, police investigating a double homicide found more than just bodies in a Tampa condo. The founder of a neonazi group was making bombs in the garage. Original Air Date: 8.7.25 Sources: https://ctc.westpoint.edu/the-threat-is-the-network-the-multi-node-structure-of-neo-fascist-accelerationism/ [https://ctc.westpoint.edu/the-threat-is-the-network-the-multi-node-structure-of-neo-fascist-accelerationism/] https://www.splcenter.org/resources/hatewatch/visions-chaos-weighing-violent-legacy-iron-march/ [https://www.splcenter.org/resources/hatewatch/visions-chaos-weighing-violent-legacy-iron-march/] https://ironmarch.noblogs.org/post/2019/11/15/meet-lauren-paul-mit-alumni-and-neo-nazi-atomwaffen-division-propagandist/ [https://ironmarch.noblogs.org/post/2019/11/15/meet-lauren-paul-mit-alumni-and-neo-nazi-atomwaffen-division-propagandist/] https://www.bu.edu/articles/2016/police-release-video-of-suspect-in-hate-poster-distribution/ [https://www.bu.edu/articles/2016/police-release-video-of-suspect-in-hate-poster-distribution/] https://www.bellingcat.com/news/2019/12/19/transnational-white-terror-exposing-atomwaffen-and-the-iron-march-networks/ [https://www.bellingcat.com/news/2019/12/19/transnational-white-terror-exposing-atomwaffen-and-the-iron-march-networks/] https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/all-american-nazis-628023/ [https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/all-american-nazis-628023/] In Minecraft After Devon Arthurs murdered his roommates, he claimed he'd only done it to prevent the loss of innocent lives. The man he said was planning a terrorist attack was arrested with a car full of guns, but not charged with any of the things Arthurs claimed their nazi terror cell had been working on. Original Air Date: 8.14.25 Sources: https://www.propublica.org/article/an-atomwaffen-member-sketched-a-map-to-take-the-neo-nazis-down-what-path-officials-took-is-a-mystery [https://www.propublica.org/article/an-atomwaffen-member-sketched-a-map-to-take-the-neo-nazis-down-what-path-officials-took-is-a-mystery] https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/frontline/article/three-murder-suspects-linked-to-atomwaffen-where-their-cases-stand/ [https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/frontline/article/three-murder-suspects-linked-to-atomwaffen-where-their-cases-stand/] https://www.bradenton.com/news/local/crime/article156282099.html [https://www.bradenton.com/news/local/crime/article156282099.html] https://www.huffpost.com/entry/nicholas-giampa-neo-nazi-teenager-murder-girlfriends-parents-virginia_n_5a4d0797e4b0b0e5a7aa4780 [https://www.huffpost.com/entry/nicholas-giampa-neo-nazi-teenager-murder-girlfriends-parents-virginia_n_5a4d0797e4b0b0e5a7aa4780] https://www.middlebury.edu/institute/academics/centers-initiatives/ctec/ctec-publications/dangerous-organizations-and-bad-actors-4 [https://www.middlebury.edu/institute/academics/centers-initiatives/ctec/ctec-publications/dangerous-organizations-and-bad-actors-4] https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/frontline/documentary/documenting-hate-new-american-nazis/transcript/ [https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/frontline/documentary/documenting-hate-new-american-nazis/transcript/] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SjEBXDfuBDE&ab_channel=COURTTV [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SjEBXDfuBDE&ab_channel=COURTTV] See omnystudio.com/listener [https://omnystudio.com/listener] for privacy information.

I Watched Uwe Boll's Far Right Power Fantasy So You Don't Have To

This week, Molly watched Citizen Vigilante, a new film from the world's worst director. Sources & Further Reading: https://scoutmagazine.ca/remembering-gastowns-ambitious-but-doomed-modern-german-restaurant/ [https://scoutmagazine.ca/remembering-gastowns-ambitious-but-doomed-modern-german-restaurant/] https://www.dailysabah.com/arts/cinema/hanau-attack-film-angers-victims-families [https://www.dailysabah.com/arts/cinema/hanau-attack-film-angers-victims-families] https://www.vanityfair.com/hollywood/2021/03/the-fall-of-armie-hammer-a-family-saga-of-sex-money-drugs-and-betrayal [https://www.vanityfair.com/hollywood/2021/03/the-fall-of-armie-hammer-a-family-saga-of-sex-money-drugs-and-betrayal] https://people.com/movies/armie-hammer-controversy-timeline/ [https://people.com/movies/armie-hammer-controversy-timeline/] https://www.theguardian.com/film/2006/sep/26/news [https://www.theguardian.com/film/2006/sep/26/news] https://www.theglobeandmail.com/life/food-and-wine/restaurant-reviews/article-tk-alex-gill-review-of-kozak-ukrainian-restaurant/ [https://www.theglobeandmail.com/life/food-and-wine/restaurant-reviews/article-tk-alex-gill-review-of-kozak-ukrainian-restaurant/] Simi, Pete, and Robert Futrell. American Swastika: Inside the White Power Movement’s Hidden Spaces of Hate. Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, 2010 See omnystudio.com/listener [https://omnystudio.com/listener] for privacy information.