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White Supremacist Pleads Guilty to Highlander Center Arson

4/14/2026

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Regan Prater, linked to white supremacist movements, pleaded guilty to arson in the March 29, 2019 fire at the Highlander Research and Education Center in Tennessee.
The blaze caused more than $1.2 million in damage and destroyed irreplaceable civil rights documents.
Prater also admitted to attempting to aid Hezbollah by providing personal information about individuals connected to the Israeli government.
Sentencing is set for September 9.
Highlander has hosted civil rights leaders such as Rosa Parks and Martin Luther King Jr.

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Regan Prater, linked to white supremacist movements, pleaded guilty to arson in the March 29, 2019 fire at the Highlander Research and Education Center in Tennessee.
The blaze caused more than $1.2 million in damage and destroyed irreplaceable civil rights documents.
Prater also admitted to attempting to aid Hezbollah by providing personal information about individuals connected to the Israeli government.
Sentencing is set for September 9.
Highlander has hosted civil rights leaders such as Rosa Parks and Martin Luther King Jr.