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157 Africans in the world, and to organize and unite black students . The alienation of black youth was the key to their militancy according to RAM . This theme appeared in most of the documents but was developed most carefully in Black Youth : Vanguard of the New World , 1964 . This document stated that the economic, political and social isolation of African-American youth from monopoly capitalism and white culture guaranteed their alienation . Black youth make up over one-half the population of black America . The system has displaced them and exposed its contradictions to them . They have not yet been brain-washed . They are oepn to attack from all sectors of white society . They are victims of a contradiction between the black reality and the lies of white America . They recognize that the education they received is meaningless and that the system does not have enough jobs for them . Because of an "intuitive" feeling that they cannot and will not be allowed to fit in, black youth realize that they have no alternative "but to go to the streets . ,24 One could argue that the causes of alienation of black youth are generally the same causes of alienation of all black workers . It might be possible to make a good case for older black employed and unemployed workers as the vanguard because of their alienation, exploitation at the work place and potential, vis a vis, their skills to run industry . Interestingly RAM did not discuss this possibility when it presented its view of black workers . Instead, it chose to place greater emphasis on the bitterness and disappointment and their freedom from the slave mentality as the chief causes of the greater militancy of black youth . Black youth were seen as the "potential warriors of black America" 24 Black Youth : Vanguard of the New World , pp . 1-2 .
158 and could become a "political Mau Mau ." RAM divided youth still further into two sections : ghetto youth and students . Ghetto youth are those black people who are chronically unemployed, seasonally employed or semiskilled workers . They are members of the street force and the subproletariat . Students are usually from the black working class or bourgeois who attend colleges or high schools . They are potentially the black intelligentsia . The task of black revolutionaries is to give this purposeless army direction and to transform it into a "blood brotherhood" which is committed to liberation by any means necessary . 25 The rebellion in Los Angeles in 1965 demonstrated the <strong>revolutionary</strong> potential that RAM had ascribed to black youth . Ghetto youth were the leadership of the rebellion . 26 The benefits of imperialism that other sectors gain and which, in part, explains their lack of political consciousness, is not a factor for black youth . Most black people feel that they will have to give something up if they struggle for independence, whereas, most people in the world believe that they will gain something through <strong>revolutionary</strong> struggle . Black youth is the only sector to react positively to this paradoz because they have been faced with diminishing access to economic rewards caused by 27 increased technology . In 1966, black youth continued to be seen as the vanguard by RAM . Their leadership role in relationship to adults is stated in The Struggle 25 lbid ., pp . 1-2 . 26,, The Next Step and the Road Ahead, L .A . Proves We Will Win the National Rebellion Against Racist Oppression," Revolutionary Nationalist , (August 1965), p . 3 . 27 "The African-American War of National Liberation," Black America , (Summer/Fall 1965), p . 4 .
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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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48 publicizing the infamous "Kissin
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50 because of their centrality to t
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52 a tactic for people in the Third
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54 Indians in Uruguay . The Tupamar
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56 In Argentina, the Revolutionary
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58 conversative leaders in the civi
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60 the most powerful military compl
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62 There are various accounts of th
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64 inciting to riot . As a result o
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66 position of supporting Martin Lu
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68 coast RAM leadership . Plans wer
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7 0 Mao goes on to state that it is
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72 protracted . Guillen states : Wh
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CHAPTER FOUR EMERGENCE OF RAM The i
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76 Freeman sent letters to the Chal
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78 Philadelphia . One acquaintance
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80 a series of ideological discussi
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82 mass movement . 9 Queen Mother A
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84 The demonstration was scheduled
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86 dance . They called for support
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88 Philadelphia voted with Freeman,
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90 The leadership of the national o
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92 Cleage's terms, a "strategy of c
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94 James Foreman violently opposed
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were killed, eighty beaten, thirty-
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98 into armed self-defense . It was
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100 Executive Secretary . . . . . .
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102 Information Agency (USIA) . The
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104 a force which he had not develo
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Page 179 and 180: CHAPTER SEVEN RESPONSE OF THE STATE
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Page 193 and 194: 190 country were arrested on variou
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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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218 know that we have been fighting
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220 1965, August Black Vanguard, Vo
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22 2 BIBLIOGRAPHY Ahmad,Muhummad Ak
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22 4 Cluster, Dick . "The Borning S
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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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