Lois de Lafayette Washburn

Lois de Lafayette Washburn (born c. 1894) was an American fascist and the founder of anti-Semitic groups in Chicago and Tacoma, Washington. She signed her letters "T.N.T."

Early life

She claimed to be a descendant of General Lafayette,[1] the French aide to George Washington.

Political career

In 1936 she founded the Crusaders for Economic Liberty in Chicago with George W. Christians.[2]

She founded anti-Semitic groups in Chicago and Tacoma, Washington.[3] She also acted as the executive secretary of Donald Shea's National Gentile League.[2]

While on trial with seditionists in 1944 during the Brown Scare, she gave a Nazi salute from the court steps.[4][5]

Selected publications

"Yankee Minute Men" (pamphlet)

gollark: Also they're entirely reliant on the city for electricity and water and stuff.

gollark: Context: you can't really grow food on tiny bits of soil on cardboard. You can't really grow much food on the tiny plots. You can't grow food fast enough for it to be useful in your "commune" in the middle of a city. You probably can't grow enough food *at all* in that area to feed the sort of population density cities typically have. You definitely can't really do it without much farming equipment and by just making a few tiny soil bits with plants in them.

gollark: Yes, exactly.

gollark: https://twitter.com/tweetbrettmac/status/1270983562226012161?s=12

gollark: * stupider

References

Carlson, John Roy. (1943) Under Cover: My Four Years in the Nazi Underworld of America. New York: Dutton. pp. 361.
Jeansonne, Glen. (1996). Women of the Far Right: The Mothers' Movement and World War II. Chicago: University of Chicago Press. p. 154. ISBN 978-0-226-39589-0.
Yellin, Emily (2010-05-11). Our Mothers' War: American Women at Home and at the Front During World War II. Simon and Schuster. ISBN 978-1-4391-0358-6.
Belknap, Michal R. (1994). American Political Trials. Greenwood Publishing Group. ISBN 978-0-275-94437-7.
"[Lois de Lafayette Washburn gives a stiff-armed salute as she and Howard Victor Broenstrupp leave Federal District Court April 17th, in Washington, D.C.]". Library of Congress, Washington, D.C. 20540 USA. Retrieved 2020-01-24.

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[carl-1] Carlson, John Roy. (1943) Under Cover: My Four Years in the Nazi Underworld of America. New York: Dutton. pp. 361.

[Jean-2] Jeansonne, Glen. (1996). Women of the Far Right: The Mothers' Movement and World War II. Chicago: University of Chicago Press. p. 154. ISBN 978-0-226-39589-0.

[3] Yellin, Emily (2010-05-11). Our Mothers' War: American Women at Home and at the Front During World War II. Simon and Schuster. ISBN 978-1-4391-0358-6.

[4] Belknap, Michal R. (1994). American Political Trials. Greenwood Publishing Group. ISBN 978-0-275-94437-7.

[5] "[Lois de Lafayette Washburn gives a stiff-armed salute as she and Howard Victor Broenstrupp leave Federal District Court April 17th, in Washington, D.C.]". Library of Congress, Washington, D.C. 20540 USA. Retrieved 2020-01-24.