Rising Up Angry, undated excerpt

Rising Up Angry, undated excerpt

New Left

Rising Up Angry was a radical organization compromised of working class youth from communities in Chicago, Illinois. The group published a monthly newspaper that ran from 1969 to 1975. The excerpt from this undated issue features brief reports on the Young Lord's in New York; a radical organization called Mother Jones in Baltimore; the murder of Eugene Anderson in Baltimore; the Lin Pio Park One; a Teamster action in New York; the case of Mark Jahr in Patterson, New Jersey; racial disturbance at the 103rd Street Beach; dangerous working conditions in Waukegan; a racist firebomb in Harper Area; death of black man in police custody in Arkansas; police harassment in Hamlin Park; armed self-defense; murals; a conversation about drug use among military service members;

Rising Up Angry

Roz Payne

Center for Digital Research in the Humanities, University of Nebraska-Lincoln

undated

newspaper