The Black Liberation Army & Republic of New Afrika (E10) (Patreon)

Guerrilla warfare in the 20th century United States? Factions of the Black Power movement made this a reality. Following our episode on the Weather Underground, we tackle the Black Liberation Army and the Republic of New Afrika. Julian Feeld and Jon Gabrus explore recent history that now seems farfetched.

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Research and writing by Edwin O’Connell. Editing by Ty Wood. Theme song by Thiago França. Cover art by Ruben Gerard. Super Structure selection of the week is My People… Hold On by Eddie Kendricks.

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Bibliography

Fugitive Days: Memoirs of an Anti-War Activist by William Ayers

Days of Rage: America's Radical Underground, the FBI, and the Forgotten Age of Revolutionary Violence by Bryan Burrough

“From COINTELPRO to Snowden, the FBI Burglars Speak Out After 43 Years of Silence” in Democracy Now! by Amy Goodman

False Nationalism False Internationalism by E. Tani and Kaé Sera

“Weather Underground: Driving down a dead end street” by George Tyler

Prairie Fire: The Politics of Revolutionary Anti-Imperialism by the Weather Underground

Flying Too Close To The Sun by Cathy Wilkerson

“Chicago: Law and Disorder” by the Chicago History Museum 

“Black History, And The Weather Underground Organization in America, a story” by the African American Registry 

The Road to Radicalization: Tracking the Development of the Weather Underground’s Ideology (an honors thesis) by Rachel McKee

“The Crazy True Story Of The Weather Underground” in Grunge by K. Wells 

““Free the Land!”: Fifty Years of the Republic of New Afrika” in Black Perspectives by Daniel Berger

Negroes with Guns by Robert F. Williams 

“ASSATA SHAKUR The Interview” in The Talking Drum

“Miss Chesimard Flees Jersey Prison, Helped By 3 Armed ‘Visitors’” in The New York Times

“We Made a Village for the Kids: Reflections on the Prairie Fire Organizing Committee” by Mickey Ellinger in Viewpoint Magazine