1. Freedom North
During the late 1960s and early 1970s influential organizations were formed in the dangerous Northern ghettos, "These groups formed, in the aggregate, part of a growing grassroots movement of poor and working-class urban dwellers, mostly minority, that gave political and social direction to the insurgent mood prevalent in Northern cities in the second half of the 1960s and the early 1970s." ... "Ahmad Rahmad of the Illinois chapter remembers that it was in the Illinois Black Panther Party where he "first took orders from a woman who wasn't my mother." ...
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- Grade Level: Undergraduate