Harold Covington

Harold Armstead Covington (born Burlington, North Carolina, 14 September 1953) is an American neo-nazi and novelist with a small underground cult following.

Covington first joined the National Socialist White People's Party [NSWPP], successor to George Lincoln Rockwell's American Nazi Party in 1972. He served as editor of the party newspaper WHITE POWER from 1972 to late 1973 when he left for Southern Africa, at that time under White rule. After working for Grinaker Construction in Johannesburg, South Africa, Covington joined the Rhodesian Army and served in the bush war until 1976, when he and two other Americans were deported by the Ian Smith regime for attemping to form a rightist opposition to what they and many White Rhodesians saw as a sellout by the Rhodesia Front government.

Covington came to national prominence on the Nazi scene as a member of the National Socialist Party of America (NSPA) under Frank Collin in 1979 when NSPA and KKK members were involved in a gun battle with the Communist Worker's Party in Greensboro, N. C. The Communist attacked a Klan motorcade with firearms and were repulsed with five dead Reds. Covington spearheaded the legal defense activities for the Greensboro 16 defendants and was widely credited with being instrumental in the acquittals in November of 1980.

In 1979, NSPA members at the Chicago headquarters found "films, pictures and addresses of some little boys", as a result of which they caused the then leader, Frank Collin, to be arrested and sent to prison on buggery charges.

Covington is currently involved in the Northwest Migration, an attempt to establish a Homeland for all White people in the Pacific Northwest.

External links

• Northwest Homeland, a blog by Covington
• Thoughtcrime, a blog by Covington