Tag: Lawrence Dennis

  • Oral history interview with Lawrence Dennis, 1967 Columbia University Libraries Digital Collections Columbia Center for Oral History Columbia University, New York, New York Digitized 2010 (Originally recorded in 1967) DOI: 10.7916/d8-cpb1-1692 Lawrence Dennis (1893-1977) interviewed by William R. Keylor (1944-). Listen to the interview here.

  • According to Lonnie, unlike other toddlers, he had no interest in playing. In his autobiography, which he’d completed by age eleven, he stated he’d place his dolls in chairs and preach to them.

  • The 7th Episode explores the hidden history with Blacks ‘passing’ as White. From ‘Free People of Color’ to ‘Creoles’ to Lawrence Dennis the so-called founder of American Facism that passed as a white man when all along he was a Black Man.

  • Author Gerald Horne talked about his life and career and responded to viewer comments and questions. His most recent book is “Paul Robeson: The Artist as Revolutionary.”

  • What does it mean that Lawrence Dennis—arguably the “brains” behind U.S. fascism—was born black but spent his entire adult life passing for white?

  • The fascist who ‘passed’ for white The Guardian 2007-04-04 Gary Younge, Feature Writer and Columnist Lawrence Dennis was a leading light in the American fascist movement of the 1930s. He was a fan of Hitler and a self-avowed anti-semite. Now a new book reveals that he was actually black—although even his wife didn’t know. Gary…

  • A bumper crop of works on influential early 20th century American racists, fascists and eugenicists has been hitting the bookshelves in 2009. Two of the most interesting are on Madison Grant (1865-1937), perhaps the most important conservationist of his time and so pernicious a racist and anti-Semite that he helped inspire Hitler’s policies, and Lawrence…

  • Tale of a ‘Seditionist’–The Lawrence Dennis Story AntiWar.com 2000-04-29 Justin Raimondo War infects and weakens our republican form of government, spreads social and political diseases throughout the body politic—but is, as Randolph Bourne put it, “the health of the State.” The State, in wartime, is glorified and empowered: the militarization of society means that all…

  • The Coming MiscegeNation? TruthDig 2011-02-13 Marcia Alesan Dawkins, Visiting Scholar Brown University It’s official. We’re a “miscegeNation.” The 2010 Census results are reminding us that multiracialism is not only our destiny but our reality. We’re seeing the rise of the most diverse cohort of youth in the nation’s history with a record low white population—the…