Miller, Frazier Glenn (1941–)

During the 1980s, Frazier Glenn Miller (aka F. Glenn Miller Jr.; Glenn Miller), a former U.S. army officer, was the leader of the Carolina Knights of the Ku Klux Klan (CKKKK) and, later, the White Patriot Party (WPP), a paramilitary offshoot of the CKKKK.

Miller was discharged from the army in 1979 for distributing racist literature. In November of that year, he allegedly helped instigate an attack on an anti-Klan rally and march in Greensboro, North Carolina, in which five demonstrators, all members of the Communist Workers Party, were gunned down by Klansmen and American Nazis. When all of the accused were acquitted on April 15, 1984, Miller, already a vocal public figure in North Carolina, called the Klansmen and Nazis “heroes” who acted in “self-defense,” and claimed that the verdict was a victory for “all patriotic, anti-communist, freedom-loving Christian people.”

In the mid-1980s, Klan activity throughout the country was declining. Under Miller's leadership, however, the CKKKK raised its profile, becoming one of the most active Klan groups. In 1983, Bobby Person, a black prison guard in rural Moore County, North Carolina, filed a civil rights suit against Miller and the CKKKK. Person was working to become the first black sergeant at the local prison in Moore County, and he was being harassed by the CKKKK.

The case came to trial with Morris S. Dees, an anti-Klan activist lawyer from the Southern Poverty Law Center in Alabama, representing Person. In addition to harassment, charges related to the CKKKK's paramilitary activities had been added. During the trial, Miller maintained that group [Page 388]members were only involved in “self-defense,” that they were training men, women, and children how to safely shoot and maintain firearms, and that they rarely practiced outdoor maneuvers. On January 17, 1985, the case was settled out of court, with terms that called for no monetary settlements, but the end of all paramilitary activity by the CKKKK.

Miller subsequently disbanded the CKKKK and formed the White Patriot Party (WPP), a paramilitary group that embraced Christian Identity–type racist beliefs. The WPP's goal was to create a white “Southland” in the southern United States by 1992; such a settlement had been described by William Pierce in his race-war novel, The Turner Diaries (1978).

In 1986 Miller and other WPP members were arrested for conspiracy to murder Dees and for continuing to conduct paramilitary operations in North Carolina. Testimony in the case revealed that Miller accepted $200,000 in stolen funds from Robert Mathews, the founder of The Order, and that active-duty military personnel were involved in training members of the WPP. Miller was sentenced to six months in prison in July 1986 for disobeying the court order prohibiting him from operating the WPP.

While free on bond and awaiting appeal, Miller went underground. In April 1987, he mailed nearly 5,000 letters to other white supremacists, issuing a declaration of “total war” against the federal government, which Miller referred to as ZOG (Zionist Occupational Government), and urging others to take up arms against nonwhites, civil rights activists, and judges.

Miller was captured in May 1987 in Ozark, Missouri. Federal agents staged a predawn raid, firing tear-gas canisters into Miller's mobile home. At the same time, other WPP members—Robert Jackson and Lawrence Sheets (both wanted in North Carolina for failing to appear to testify in a conspiracy case), and Tony Wydra—were arrested. Wydra was later released without being charged.

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