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| Abbreviation | NYA |
|---|---|
| Predecessor | Youth for Wallace |
| Formation | November 15, 1968; 56 years ago (1968-11-15) |
| Founder | Willis Carto |
| Founded at | Army and Navy Club |
| Type | Right-wing political organization |
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TheNational Youth Alliance (NYA) was an Americanright-wing political group founded byWillis Carto, head of the right-wingLiberty Lobby.
The NYA was founded on November 15, 1968, at theArmy and Navy Club. The NYA emerged from an earlier group connected to Willis Carto known as the Youth for Wallace, which had supportedsegregationist GovernorGeorge Wallace's bid for president asAmerican Independent Party candidate in 1968.[citation needed] The NYA aimed to recruit students to counter liberal andMarxist groups on college campuses likeStudents for a Democratic Society.
Willis Carto was a devotee of the writings ofFrancis Parker Yockey,[1] who reveredAdolf Hitler. Yockey's bookImperium was adopted by Carto as his own guiding ideology and that of the National Youth Alliance.[citation needed]
Carto recruitedWilliam Luther Pierce to be NYA chairman.[2] Pierce had previously been prominent in theNational Socialist White People's Party (NSWPP), the successor organisation to theAmerican Nazi Party (ANP) that fell apart after the August 1967 assassination of its leaderGeorge Lincoln Rockwell. Pierce joined the National Youth Alliance in 1970 after leaving the NSWPP.[citation needed] Pierce wroteThe Turner Diaries while in the NYA.[2]
By 1971, a rift had developed between Carto and Pierce. Accusations by Carto emerged alleging that Pierce had stolen the mailing list of hisLiberty Lobby organization and used it to send letters attacking Carto's group. The group split into factions, with Pierce and his supporters forming theNational Alliance.[citation needed]