Neo-Nazi group's leader is black man who vows to dissolve it

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4. How a black California activist 'outsmarted' a neo-Nazi group -- and became their new leader

"While serving prison time in Mississippi for mail fraud, Stern formed a relationship with his cellmate and onetime Ku Klux Klan Grand Wizard Edgar Ray Killen. The KKK leader had been convicted in the "Mississippi Burning" killings of three civil rights workers. Though Killen regularly called Stern a racial slur, he nevertheless granted his cellmate power of attorney over his life story and estate.

Stern was parolled from prison in 2011, and in 2016 he used his legal discretion to dissolve the Klan organization Killen once led.

This was his first successful infiltration - and the lore of Stern's relationship with the KKK leader is what first drew Schoep in.

In 2014, Schoep called Stern without notice to inquire about his relationship with Killen, the activist said. Schoep asked to see the man's prison ID card and said Stern was the first black man his organization had reached out to since Malcolm X. Stern said he searched Schoep's name, discovered he was a white supremacist, then arranged for the two to meet in California for a small race relations summit."

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