National Socialist Party of America
National Socialist Party of America | |
|---|---|
| Abbreviation | NSPA |
| Leader | Frank Collin (1970–1977) Harold Covington (1977–1981) |
| Founded | 1970 |
| Dissolved | 1981 |
| Split from | National Socialist White People's Party |
| Headquarters | Chicago, Illinois Raleigh, North Carolina |
| Ideology | Neo-Nazism |
| Political position | Far-right |
The National Socialist Party of America (NSPA) was a Chicago-based organization founded in 1970 by Frank Collin shortly after he left the National Socialist White People's Party.
The party's headquarters was in Chicago's Marquette Park, and its main activity in the early 1970s was organizing loud demonstrations against black people moving into previously all-white neighborhoods. The marches and community reaction led the city of Chicago in 1977 to ban all demonstrations in Marquette Park unless they paid an insurance fee of $250,000 (equivalent to $1.3 million in 2024). While challenging the city's actions in the courts, the party decided to redirect its attention to Chicago's suburbs, which had no such restrictions.
Harold Covington succeeded Collin as leader of the NSPA in 1979, before dissolving the organization in 1981.