police in connection to a cross burning near San Bernardino. Swift denied being involved in the klan at the time. Swift was involved in the revival of a branch of the Ku Klux Klan in California during the mid-1940s, helping to establish the short lived California Klan. Roy Elonzo Davis and William Upshaw were in California at the time and they assisted in fundraising efforts for the Klan. Swift was responsible for the formation of the Antelope Valley chapter of the Ku Klux Klan. Swift worked closely with Gerald L.K. Smith, an American Nazi sympathizer and politician from the 1940s. Wesley Swift was billed as a speaker at the Little Rock Nine protests, but did not speak and instead served as one of the hooded klansmen escorting and protecting Gerald Smith during one of his speeches. Christian Identity pioneer "Swift pioneered a particularly insidious form" of racism which became "the most distinctive element" of Christian Identity theology: that non-whites and Jews are the "biological offspring" of Satan (the serpent). Swift combined the two-seed-line teaching of British Israelism with Russel Kelso Carter's theory about the sexual nature of Eve's sin in the garden of Eden. He concluded that "the violation of Divine law by Lucifer" was caused by "interbreeding" of "the peoples of earth". He insisted the black, brown, yellow and red races were all the products of interbreeding with Cain's descendants. Swift believed "that the only descendants of Adam are the white men" ... "and the rest of the beings represent the agents of evil because of their direct link with the fallen angels." The teaching also associated the offspring of Satan (the serpent) "with the activities of the Catholic Church and the pope". The ideology taught that descendants of the serpent could be identified genetically, claiming that "the nature of the seed of the serpent are as fixed as the skin of a modern Ethiopian or the spots of a leopard", and that "what is genetically marked cannot and will not change." Swift believed "an extreme doctrine of the Calvinist double predestination, in which those predestined to salvation and those predestined to perdition can be recognized only by their racial status." Interracial marriage was an important topic to Swift. He believed races could coexist so long as segregation was maintained. He said "there isn’t anything wrong with being black, but there is something wrong when you try to mix