Robert E. "Pastor Bob" Miles Born on January 28, 1925, in Washington Heights, a suburb in NYC. Died on August 16, 1992, Howell, Michigan) was a white supremacist theologist and Grand Dragon of the Michigan Ku Klux Klan from Michigan.[1] In 1970, he founded the Mountain Church of Jesus Christ the Savior on his property in Cohoctah Township, becoming a major "dualist" religious leader, and allied himself with various groups that constituted the racist and anti-Semitic political-religious movement known as Christian Identity, including Aryan Nations. In 1977, Miles received a five-year sentence for the bombing and concurrent 4-year sentences for the tarring and feathering in 1971 of the deputy superintendent of Ann Arbor Public schools. In the early 1980s, Miles endorsed the Northwest Territorial Imperative.
- ^ Vinyard, JoEllen M. (2011-06-07). Right in Michigan's Grassroots: From the KKK to the Michigan Militia. University of Michigan Press. p. 278. ISBN 9780472051595.