Clark Martell

Clark Reid Martell (born December 23, 1959) is an American white supremacist and the former leader of Chicago Area SkinHeads (CASH), which was founded in 1985 by six skinheads under his leadership. This was the first organized neo-Nazi white power skinhead group in the United States. The group was also called Romantic Violence (a name shared with a rock band fronted by Martell), Among the members he recruited were his successor as CASH leader - and later anti-extremism activist - Christian Picciolini. Martell had formerly been a member of the American Nazi Party, and in 1979 he received a four year prison sentence for the attempted firebombing of a Hispanic family's home in Cicero, Illinois, serving 30 months. While in prison, he appeared in an episode of The Oprah Winfrey Show via phone connection, stating his views on white nationalism. Martell was released from prison in 1992 after a different conviction contributing to his sentence was overturned.