Rocky Suhayda
American neo-Nazi
Rocky Joe Suhayda (born 1952) is an American neo-Nazi and far-right activist, who was chairman of an organization called the American Nazi Party, based in Michigan. Suhayda's American Nazi Party is not the same organization as the original American Nazi Party, founded by George Lincoln Rockwell. He has held the office since at least 1999.
Early life
Suhayda was born in 1952 in Detroit, Michigan. Suhayda graduated from Bentley High School in Livonia, Michigan, in 1969. He worked in the shipping and receiving department of the Garden City Osteopathic Hospital. Suhayda has run unsuccessfully for public office on several occasions, including for the Livonia School District and the Livonia City Council. He has three children.
Neo-Nazism
Suhayda was a member of the World Union of Free Enterprise National Socialists and the National Association for the Advancement of White People, and subsequently founded his own organization under the name of the American Nazi Party. Suhayda's organization claims a connection to the American Nazi Party founded by George Lincoln Rockwell in 1959, but it is officially a separate entity.
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