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position was 99 that the organization should place emphasis on building black political power in the cities . 27 A twelve-point program was drafted by a committee, read and discussed by the conference . The program included : 1 . Development of a national black student organization movement . 2 . Development of ideology (Freedom) schools . 3 . Development of Rifle Clubs . 4 . Development of Liberation Army (Guerrilla Youth Force) . 5 . Development of Propaganda, training centers and a national organization . 6 . Development of Underground Vanguard . 7 . Development of black workers "liberation unions ." 8 . Development of block organization (cells) . 9 . Development of the nation within nation concept, government in exile . 10 . Development of War Fund (Political Economy) . 11 . Development of black farmer coops . 12 . Development of Army of black unemployed . Officers for the movement elected . International Spokesman . . . . . . . . . Malcolm X 28 International Chairman . . . . . . . . . Robert F . Williams National Field Chairman . . . . . . . . . Max Stanford Executive Chairman . . . . . . . . . . . Don Freeman Ideological Chairman . . . . . . . . . . James Boggs 27 James Boggs, Racism and the Class Struggle (New York : Monthly Reveiw Press, 1970), p . 39 . 28 It was suggested that Malcolm X would be the spokesman for the movement . The field chairman was to go to New York to talk to Malcolm about it . RAM members went back to their communities to organize cells, while others traveled around spreading the movement .
100 Executive Secretary . . . . . . . . . Grace Boggs Treasurer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Milton Henry/Paul Brooks 29 RAM's activities during this period helped radicalize both Malcolm and SNCC . RAM organizers in New York would consult with Malcolm daily and whereever Malcolm went in the country, his strongest supporters and also his harshest critics were members of RAM . Malcolm's awareness of developments in the movements moved him in a more activist direction . Once he had made the break, Malcolm passed successively from a Pan-Africanism that emerged into a Third World political perspective . And at the time of his death, he was on the verge of becoming a revolutionary socialist . 31 Malcolm agreed to become the spokesman but felt his role should remain secret because the United States intelligence aparatus would become alarmed about his connection with Robert Williams, who was in exile in Cuba . Malcolm was preparing to develop a public mass organization which he intended would be instrumental in leading the broad mass movement and would serve as a united front . He asked that RAM organizers help in forming that organizatton and also infiltrate it to develop a security section . He knew the Muslim Mosque, Inc . was infiltrated by police agents and did not know who he could trust . Malcolm had just returned from his first trip to Africa . He was in the process of attempting to get African nations to endorse his proposal to take the U .S . to the United Nations for its violations of the Human Rights charter in its crimes against Afro-Americans . 29Twelve Point Program of the Revolutionary Action Movement . 1964 . 30 "Malik Shabbaz--The Man History Has Forgotton," African Mirror , February, Vol . 2, No . 3, (March 1979), p . 11 . 31 Ibid .
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REVOLUTIONARY ACTION MOVEMENT (RAM)
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TABLE OF CONTENTS Chapter I . INTRO
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2 the black movement in the 1960's
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4 Therefore, the historical backgro
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liberation movement in America usua
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independent black nation . 5 Slave
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into urban centers gave rise to nat
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12 ideology of world black revoluti
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14 The protracted war of national l
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evolution is the central theme in G
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1 8 precipitious action, to attack
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20 Nationalist Movement as a whole
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2 2 dictatorship . This led to an e
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2 4 Also, Latin America went throug
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'6 b . the transition period, 1964-
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28 The racism black soldiers faced
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York City, Garveyites attacked whit
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3 2 Part of the ABB's program was o
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34 struggle for clarity (direction)
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36 Angelo Herndon, a Negro Communis
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38 its members told to join the Nat
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40 At its inception the CP attacked
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42 the Montgomery Improvement Assoc
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44 The student leaders decided to r
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46 first lieutenant, Elijah Karriem
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Page 55 and 56: 52 a tactic for people in the Third
Page 57 and 58: 54 Indians in Uruguay . The Tupamar
Page 59 and 60: 56 In Argentina, the Revolutionary
Page 61 and 62: 58 conversative leaders in the civi
Page 63 and 64: 60 the most powerful military compl
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Page 69 and 70: 66 position of supporting Martin Lu
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Page 75 and 76: 72 protracted . Guillen states : Wh
Page 77 and 78: CHAPTER FOUR EMERGENCE OF RAM The i
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Page 81 and 82: 78 Philadelphia . One acquaintance
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Page 91 and 92: 88 Philadelphia voted with Freeman,
Page 93 and 94: 90 The leadership of the national o
Page 95 and 96: 92 Cleage's terms, a "strategy of c
Page 97 and 98: 94 James Foreman violently opposed
Page 99 and 100: were killed, eighty beaten, thirty-
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Page 105 and 106: 102 Information Agency (USIA) . The
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Page 123 and 124: 120 The Black Panther Party was est
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Page 131 and 132: 128 one hundred cities protesting t
Page 133 and 134: 130 RAM leadership . Also, new forc
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15 0 This ideology was placed in a
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154 The captive nation status of bl
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158 and could become a "political M
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160 RAM's view of revolution in tha
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166 enslaved . The fact that the U
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168 The international program of RA
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17 0 true aspirations for self-dete
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17 4 to wage a war of self-defense
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CHAPTER SEVEN RESPONSE OF THE STATE
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184 "neutralize" him as an effectiv
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186 Malcolm X's break from the nati
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188 While the search of the first f
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190 country were arrested on variou
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192 block . Us, in a carload, would
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194 Churches that permitted the Pan
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196 the black liberation movement .
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198 system and its failure to inves
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200 The Revolutionary Action Moveme
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202 of the economic gains black peo
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APPENDIX A : Selected RAM Documents
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206 This can be done by telling fri
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208 rights leaders with the nationa
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21 2 To be read or given to Afro-Am
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214 THE CODE OF THE REVOLUTIONARY N
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APPENDIX B : BLACK GUARD DOCUMENTS
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220 1965, August Black Vanguard, Vo
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22 2 BIBLIOGRAPHY Ahmad,Muhummad Ak
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226 Henderson, Jeff . "A Philip Ran
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228 . Marxism and Black Radicalism
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23 0 Sobel, Lester A ., ed . Politi
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