Robert E. Miles

Who was Robert E. Miles?

Robert E. "Pastor Bob " Miles was a White Supremacist leader from Michigan.

A major "dualist" religious leader, Miles allied himself with various groups that constituted the racist and anti-Semitic political-religious movement known as Christian Identity, including Aryan Nations. According to Miles, Earth was the site of a battle between a true God and a false God, with Jews acting as agents of the false God against the true "chosen people," white Aryans. [Barkun, 1994]. According to Barkun, "Despite the idiosyncrasies of his theology, the avuncular Miles functioned as a kind of elder statesman of the racial movement."

In 1971, Miles, then the grand dragon of the Michigan Ku Klux Klan, was arrested for conspiring to bomb school buses in an attempt to stop the integration of public schools in Michigan. He was later convicted and served his sentence.

Following the 1979 "Greensboro Massacre" of anti-klan activists in 1979, "a number of previously antagonistic White Supremacist groups, including the Posse Comitatus and various Neo-Nazi and Klan factions, began having discussions about how they could formulate a common ideology.