revolutionary action movement (ram) - Michael Schwartz Library

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and magazine accounts in an
attempt to keep abreast of the media coverage
of RAM .
Eyewitness accounts will be utilized in the research . Twenty-five
people who were active in the organization and who represent various Black
communities will be interviewed . The sample will include ex-RAM members
who remain incarcerated, and comrades, friends and relatives of deceased
members to determine the
relationship of their death to their political
activity .
To develop a
descriptive analysis through primary sources, from eyewitness
accounts and interviews, the researcher will try to determine :
1 . What motivated people to become involved in the organization
2 . The participants' class background, age and sex .
3 . Forms of repression used against the membership of the
organization, such as, prison, exile, and assassination .
4 . Current location and status of participants .
In order to validate primary resources, FBI documents on tine movement
will be examined . Also, the research will include an examination of FBI
files on the major individuals involved in RAM . Personal tape recorded
interviews with these individuals will be conducted . The researcher will
investigate how repression, jailings and other forms of harassment have
altered the lives of individuals involved .
Major Theories
Many of the studies on the black liberation movement in the United
States suffer from two major defects : they fail to place the black liberation
movement in a larger context to being part of a world-wide anticolonial,
Third World and socialist revolution, struggling to liberate itself
from the world capitalist system ;
and most researchers of the black