In April 2022, we published the first part of “Notes on Martin Kenneth O’Toole and White Supremacy.” Now, four years later, Martin O’Toole unfortunately remains relevant to anti-racists due to his ongoing activism as a white nationalist, as well as his continuing role as the spokesperson for Georgia chapter of the Sons of Confederate Veterans (SCV). Media outlets still quote O’Toole as the voice of this Confederate “heritage” organization without referencing his decades of white nationalist activity.
Our first “Notes” on O’Toole discussed O’Toole’s racist organizing at University of Georgia in the 1970s. We then covered his activities in the 1980s facilitating the production and mass mailing of newsletters for NSDAP/AO, a neo-Nazi group. We also discussed O’Toole’s assistance with Instauration, a racist and antisemitic publication. We concluded with a discussion of O’Toole’s activity in the Holocaust denial scene, which included hosting events for Hitler-sympathizer David Irving in the Atlanta area, as well as operating a related publishing company.
In this second article, we finish our coverage of O’Toole’s racist career by outlining his history with three virulently racist groups: American Renaissance, the Charles Martel Society, and the Foundation for Human Understanding (FHU). During the period when O’Toole led FHU, the Foundation reprinted Siege, a notorious book which has inspired neo-Nazi terrorist attacks. Finally, we discuss O’Toole’s travel to Russia with other white nationalists in 2018 in an apparent networking mission.
Just as with our first “Notes” on O’Toole, this article is not an attempt at a comprehensive biography of O’Toole, or even an exhaustive account of his racist and antisemitic organizing. Our aim is to synthesize existing documentation on O’Toole—scattered around multiple sources—and to add relevant findings from our own research. We hope this provides readers with a clearer picture of O’Toole’s white nationalist campaigning over the decades.
Continue reading “Notes on Martin Kenneth O’Toole and White Supremacy, Part Two”