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Rising Up Angry

Rising Up Angry staff photographer

Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, The New York Public Library

Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, The New York Public Library
New York, United States

“ White radicals and activists of conscience needed to work with white youth in poor and working-class neighborhoods to help overcome deep-seated racism in those communities. We wanted to have them join the Movement, to struggle along with blacks and Latinos to overthrow the racist, capitalist, imperialists who were running the show.” Michael James, leader of RUA, a Chicago group of young white progressives

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  • Title: Rising Up Angry
  • Creator: Rising Up Angry staff photographer
  • Location: Chicago
  • Rights: Michael James Archives
Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, The New York Public Library

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