Editing H. L. Hunt (section)

==Connection to white supremacy==
Hunt supported the [[Dixiecrat|Dixiecrats]], viewing the rest of the Democratic Party as an "instrument of socialism and Communism in this country."<ref>{{Cite web |last=TIME |date=1954-01-11 |title=The Press: Facts-Forum Facts |url=https://time.com/archive/6621685/the-press-facts-forum-facts/ |access-date=2025-04-02 |website=TIME |language=en}}</ref>

Multiple sources, including American civil rights icon [[Malcolm X]], implicate Hunt as a lifelong racist who provided major financial assistance to several [[Far-right politics in the United States|far-right]] organizations, such as the [[Minutemen (anti-Communist organization)|Minutemen]] and the [[John Birch Society]]. Hunt considered African Americans a political threat and made this clear in his radio interviews and broadcasts.<ref>[[Washington Post]], May 6, 1967, p. E-15, July 2, 1967, January 30, 1975, p. B7.</ref> One of Hunt's chief allies, [[Allen Zoll]], said that since 1936 Hunt advocated deporting all African Americans to Africa. For this reason, Hunt supplied [[Nation of Islam]] leader [[Elijah Muhammad]] continuous financial support due to the latter's belief in [[Black separatism|racial separation from whites]].<ref>[[Hakim Jamal]], From the Dead Level, p. 247-248; [[Louis Lomax]], To Kill a Black Man, p. 108-109; Karl Evanzz, The Judas Factor, p. 284-286, The Messenger, p. 303.</ref>

In 1965, Hunt encouraged Alabama Gov. [[George Wallace|George C. Wallace]], a white supremacist, to use the scheme of running his wife, [[Lurleen Wallace]], for election as governor in a bold effort to evade the state's constitutional rule that a governor could not succeed himself.<ref>{{Cite book|last=Carter|first=Dan T.|url=https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/32739924|title=The politics of rage : George Wallace, the origins of the new conservatism, and the transformation of American politics|date=1995|publisher=Simon & Schuster|isbn=0-684-80916-8|location=New York|pages=273|oclc=32739924}}</ref>