Harold Covington

Harold Armstead Covington (born Burlington, North Carolina, 14 September 1953) is an American White separatist leader and novelist with a small but vocal underground following.

Harold Covington was originally converted to the National Socialist world iew due to his experiences in an integrated high school in Chapel Hill, North Carolina. He first became involved in radical rightist politics while he was serving in the United States Army in Hawaii. In 1972 he joined the National Socialist White People's Party, successor to George Lincoln Rockwell's American Nazi Party, while still in uniform. He served as editor of the Party's newspaper WHITE POWER from 1972 to 1973.

In 1974 Covington went to South Africa and worked for a time for a construction company in Johannesburg before going north to Rhodesia and joining the Rhodesian Army, where he served during the bush war which eventually led to the establishment of the Marxist Mugabe dictatorship in what became Zimbabwe. He and two other Americans, Eric Thomson and Jeffrey Spencer, were deported from Rhodesia in 1976 on the order of the Ian Smith government due to their activity in creating the Rhodesia White People's Party (RWPP) in opposition to what they and many White Rhodesians viewed (correctly)as a sellout of the country's European population by the Smith government.

Back in America Covington joined the National Socialist Party of America (NSPA) and was involved in the famous Operation Skokie free speech case, which won a Supreme Court decision in 1978 allowing the party to rally in Chicago's public parks. He was one of 35 National Socialists who stepped out onto the Daley Plaza in Chicago on June 25th, 1978 to confront over 50,000 Jewish and leftist counterdemonstrators.

Covington rose to national prominence for a brief time in 1979 and 1980 when members of the NSPA and the Ku Klux Klan were involved in a gun battle with members of the Communist Workers' Party on November 3rd, 1979, in Greensboro, North Carolina. Covington spearheaded the Greensboro 16 Defense Fund, and was widely credited by the media and the government with being instrumental in obtaining the acquittals at their trial in November 1980, after he helped Greensboro journalist Martha Woodall expose the presence in the NSPA ranks of a badge-carry informant for the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, and Firearms named Bernard Butkovich.

In 1980, Covington ran for North Carolina Attorney General in the state's Republican primary, polling over 57,000 votes and gaining 43% of the total vote, as well as carrying 47 of North Carolina's 100 counties.

In 1979, members of the Chicago NSPA unit found "films, pictures and addresses of some little boys" in the Marquette Park headquarters of the organization. As a result of these discoveries the then NSPA leader Frank Collin was arrested, pled guilty, and sent to prison on buggery charges. This is a unique event in the history of the American White racial nationalist movement, because it is the only time where the membership of a white racial organization has successfully dealt with and terminated the extreme misbehavior which so often characterizes the leadership of such groups.

Covington has been the subject of a number of increasingly hysterical smears, slanders, and attacks based on fabrication in an attempt to discredit his character. He has been called a Jew, a homosexual, a Federal informant, and all the usual litany of vilification which is part and parcel of participation in radical politics of any kind.

None of these accusations have ever been proven or documented in any way, and they appear to originate with leftist groups such as Gerry Gable's Searchlight Magazine, the Southern Poverty Law Center of Morris Dees, and the Anti-Defamation League of B'nai B'rith. The alleged "sources" used in previous Wikipedia articles on Covington are all from extreme-left sources, are malicious, and are inaccurate to the point of fantasy.

Covington is presently one of the primary spokesmen (although certainly not the only one) for the Northwest Migration movement, which advocates the establishment of a Homeland for all White people in the Pacific Northwest. He is the author of a number of novels including the Northwest Trilogy, a futuristic set of three novels describing a successful White revolution and the establishment of a Northwest American Republic.

External links

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