Harold Covington

Harold Covington
Covington in 1980
2nd President of the National Socialist Party of America
In office 1977–1981
Preceded by	Frank Collin
Succeeded by	Organization disbanded
Personal details
Born	Harold Armstead Covington (1953-09-14)September 14, 1953 Burlington, North Carolina, U.S.
Died	July 14, 2018(2018-07-14) (aged 64) Bremerton, Washington, U.S.
Occupation	Author

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Harold Armstead Covington (September 14, 1953 – July 14, 2018) was an American neo-Nazi activist and writer. In his later years, he advocated the creation of a "white homeland" in the Pacific Northwest known as the Northwest Territorial Imperative, and was the founder of the Northwest Front (NF), a white separatist political movement that sought to establish a white ethnostate. He was a controversial figure even within the neo-Nazi movement.

After high school he joined the United States Army and joined the neo-Nazi group the National Socialist White People's Party (NSWPP). After being discharged from the army, Covington moved to South Africa, then Rhodesia, before being deported from Rhodesia for harassing members of a Jewish congregation. Upon his return to America, he joined the National Socialist Party of America (NSPA), becoming its leader. Following the Greensboro massacre that involved the NSPA, Covington was accused by both the Nazis and the Communists involved of being involved and possibly having informed on the far-right to escape consequences, which he denied. He wrote and self-published several fiction novels to mixed reception within the white nationalist movement.