By Lomin Saay­man

FOXNews.com

A Florida woman who has been mar­ried to both the for­mer head of the Ku Klux Klan and the cre­ator of a noto­ri­ous white suprema­cist Web site is work­ing as a spokes­woman for a school that aims to lift under­priv­i­leged black and His­panic chil­dren out of poverty.

An exec­u­tive with an orga­ni­za­tion that tracks hate groups calls the employ­ment of the woman, Chloe Black, an “unten­able posi­tion” and “unbelievable.”

Black, the ex-wife of for­mer KKK leader David Duke, is now mar­ried to Don Black, the cre­ator of the white-power hate site Storm­front. Chloe Black is cur­rently employed as an exec­u­tive assis­tant at Florida Crys­tals, a sugar con­glom­er­ate whose own­ers, the Fan­jul broth­ers, have donated hun­dreds of thou­sands of dol­lars to help build a new cam­pus for Glades Academy.

Glades is a char­ter school for the chil­dren of African-American and migrant work­ers in Paho­kee, a rural town in Palm Beach County. Bil­lion­aire Jose “Pepe” Fanjul’s wife, Emilia, is chair­man of the board of Glades Acad­emy, and she hired Black to help pro­mote the school.

Reports sug­gest that Black’s salary from the school may be going to sup­port her husband’s activ­i­ties on the hate site, as Don Black has had no clear source of income for some time.

Don Black, in an online appeal for con­tri­bu­tions to his hate site, wrote that he does not receive a salary from the site. “Storm­front is an online com­mu­nity of White activists,” he wrote. “It’s not a busi­ness, no one receives a salary, and our work is sup­ported by vol­un­tary contributions.”

Accord­ing to the South­ern Poverty Law Cen­ter, an Alabama-based non-profit orga­ni­za­tion that tracks hate groups, Don Black has not had a reg­u­lar job for “years and years,” though the SPLC could not prove that Chloe Black’s salary from Florida Crys­tals was going to sup­port Stormfront.

When con­tacted by FOXNews.com, Chloe Black refused to dis­cuss the alle­ga­tions or her role in Glades Acad­emy. She told the New York Post ear­lier this month that she hasn’t been involved with the white supremacy move­ment “in 30 years.”

But the SPLC, which has fol­lowed the Blacks as prin­ci­pal lead­ers of the white suprema­cist move­ment for decades, said that is not true.

Mark Potok, the SPLC’s intel­li­gence project direc­tor, said Black in June attended a key con­fer­ence of the Coun­cil of Con­ser­v­a­tive Cit­i­zens, a group that says on its Web site that it opposes “all efforts to mix the races of mankind” and once described black peo­ple as “a ret­ro­grade species of humanity.”

“The SPLC’s role is not to make demands of the Fan­juls. But they have put as a front woman on this very wor­thy phil­an­thropic project a woman who rep­re­sents every­thing that is anti­thet­i­cal to this project. This is an unten­able posi­tion. She is not merely a woman who mar­ried white suprema­cist lead­ers; she has actively par­tic­i­pated in white suprema­cist func­tions,” Potok said.

Potok said he found Black’s involve­ment with Glades Acad­emy “unbelievable.”

There is no indi­ca­tion that the Fan­juls or Florida Crys­tals were aware of Chloe Black’s right-wing sym­pa­thies when she was appointed to speak on behalf of Glades Academy.

Gas­ton Can­tens, Florida Crys­tals’ vice pres­i­dent of cor­po­rate rela­tions, did not respond to repeated requests by FOXNews.com for com­ment but has been quoted as say­ing that the com­pany does not “com­ment on the pri­vate lives of our employees.”

But a cur­sory look at Black’s resume would have revealed her con­nec­tions to the Knights of the KKK and the National Party.

In 1972 the then Chloe Hardin mar­ried David Duke, for­mer Grand Wiz­ard of the Knights of the KKK who is described as a neo-Nazi by his crit­ics. They divorced in 1984 but are report­edly still friendly and speak reg­u­larly. Black is the mother of Duke’s two daughters.

Four years later she mar­ried Don Black, Duke’s best friend and an ex-Klansman him­self. Black is the founder and web­mas­ter of Storm­front, the pre­mier online loca­tion for white suprema­cists in the U.S. and Europe.

“Don Black and David Duke are not light­weight nation­al­ists,” Potok said. “They are rabid white sep­a­ratists. Duke is bet­ter described as a neo-Nazi more than any­thing else.”

The Black fam­ily res­i­dence in West Palm Beach has been reg­is­tered in Chloe Black’s name since the year she sep­a­rated from Duke.

Accord­ing to the SPLC, 32 per­cent of Paho­kee res­i­dents live in poverty. The Glades Acad­emy project aims not only to edu­cate the chil­dren in the area, but encour­age grad­u­ates to give back to the community.