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Bill Riccio (aka William E. Davidson) is a leader in the white power skinhead movement in the United States. He gained public notoriety for his appearance in the 1992 documentary ''Skinheads: Soldiers of the Race War''. He has been convicted numerous times on illegal weapon possession, the most recent of which was in 1992. ==Activism== Riccio was the organizer of the Aryan Youth Front, a Birmingham, Alabama white power skinhead group composed of mostly male teenagers, many of them runaways. According to the Southern Poverty Law Center, Riccio "systemically indoctrinated them in racial hatred and his own special brand of neo-Confederate Hitler worship." Two of Riccio's followers committed at least two murders in Alabama, one of which was the April 1992 fatal beating of a homeless man under a railroad trestle, hours after they had attended a birthday party at the War House for Adolf Hitler.〔 The group had originally been called White Aryan Resistance. Although he later changed it to avoid confusion with another group of the same name, he continued to call the house he rented as the organization's headquarters and social gathering place the "WAR House". He funded the War House with his small auto parts business.〔("The Godfathers" ) Southern Poverty Law Center; 2006; Page 2 of 2〕 Riccio also led a network of white supremacists in Alabama, Florida and Georgia, working closely with the Confederate Hammerskins, and attracting followers from as far away as Pennsylvania. In November 1991, he and Alabama Ku Klux Klan (KKK) leader Roger Handley co-hosted a large gathering on Handley's farm, and co-organized a white power march by 150 of their members through downtown Birmingham in June 1992.〔 Riccio came to public attention when he was profiled in the 1992 HBO ''America Undercover'' documentary ''Skinheads: Soldiers of the Race War'', during which he explained that his goal was to reclaim the Southern United States as a haven for "pure Aryans".〔 According to a 2006 report by the Southern Poverty Law Center, Riccio continues to attend KKK events with followers, including some of those who first joined his cause as teenagers.〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Bill Riccio」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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