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From:Journal of African American Studies (Vol. 23, Issue 4) Peer-ReviewedThis article examines Jose "Cha Cha" Jimenez's 1975 aldermanic campaign and his work toward the successful election of the first African American mayor of Chicago. Several progressive politicians who cut their political...
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From:Monthly Review (Vol. 39, Issue 8) Peer-ReviewedTOWARD A JEWISH COMPONENT OF THE RAINBOW COALITION What follows was inspired by the interchange between Vicente Navarro and Sheila Collins on the Rainbow Coalition (MR, June 1987) and the prominent role Jesse Jackson...
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From:Monthly Review (Vol. 39) Peer-ReviewedDear Sheila Collins: I have just read your book, The Rainhow Challenge: The Jackson Campaign and the Future of U.S. Politics (Monthly Review Press, 1987). What a treat! When I started reading it I could not stop. I...
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From:Monthly Review (Vol. 38) Peer-ReviewedGRASSROOTS ORGANIZING AND THE DEMOCRATIC PARTY - THE VERMONT RAINBOW EXPERIENCE It wasn't big news in 1984 when Jesse Jackson got only 8 percent of the vote in Vermont's nonbinding presidential primary. By then, the...
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From:Journal of African American Studies (Vol. 23, Issue 4) Peer-ReviewedThe Young Lords gang transformed in late 1968 into the Young Lords Organization (YLO)-a revolutionary political body modeled after and allied with the Black Panther Party (BPP). This article explores the role of the BPP...
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From:Journal of African American Studies (Vol. 23, Issue 4) Peer-ReviewedThis article examines the role that the modern Civil Rights and Black Power Movements played in shaping Puerto Rican organizing in the U.S., namely the evolution of the Young Lords of Chicago and the creation of the...
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From:Journal of African American Studies (Vol. 23, Issue 4) Peer-ReviewedAuthor(s): Judson L. Jeffries 1, Omari L. Dyson 2 Author Affiliations: (1) grid.261331.4, 0000 0001 2285 7943, Department of African American and African Studies, The Ohio State University, , 43210, Columbus, Ohio,...
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From:Journal of African American Studies (Vol. 23, Issue 4) Peer-ReviewedThe Original Rainbow Coalition is often revered as an "inter-racial" alliance that included the Black Panthers, Young Lords, and Young Patriots. Re-contextualizing the formation of the coalition in relation to population...
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From:Journal of African American Studies (Vol. 23, Issue 4) Peer-ReviewedFounded in 1968, the Young Patriots Organization brought together white Southerners living in Chicago's Uptown neighborhood in an effort to confront the poverty and discrimination that they faced in their new urban home....
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From:The American Enterprise (Vol. 12, Issue 3)On the heels of revelations he fathered a child with his mistress, the Reverend Jesse Jackson has tumbled further from the moral high ground by adding former Chicago Democratic Congressman Mel Reynolds to the...
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From:Monthly Review (Vol. 39, Issue 6) Peer-ReviewedRACE VERSUS CLASS? MORE ON THE RAINBOW AND CLASS POLITICS Collins' reply to my review of her book, The Rainbow Challenge, published in the June issue of Monthly Review, grants that "class is everywhere' (including in...
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From:Journal of African American Studies (Vol. 23, Issue 4) Peer-ReviewedAt the age of twenty-one, Fred Hampton Sr., was assassinated, by a joint operation between the Cook County State's Attorney's Office and the Federal Bureau of Investigation. Beyond his assassination, and his involvement...