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In 1969, the SDS was heading in a more radical direction and Jaffe became one of the founding members of the Weatherman Organization, yet never became a leader. [11] Jaffe joined the Weather Underground because the group believed in the self-determination of African American people; that they should have a revolution of their own without the total involvement of white middle class people.
A Radical Line: From the Labor Movement to the Weather Underground, One Family's Century of Conscience. (Free Press: New York, New York, 2004). Kraft, Scott. "The Brink's Job: Blowing The "Lid Off The Weather Underground," The Associated Press, October 24, 1981, retrieved on November 17, 2008. "Long Live Ho Chi Minh."
The May 19 Communist Organization, also known as the May 19th Coalition and the May 19 Communist Movement, was a self-described revolutionary organization formed by splintered-off members of the Weather Underground. Originally known as the New York Chapter of the Prairie Fire Organizing Committee (PFOC), the group was active from 1978 to 1985.
The 1981 Brink's robbery was an armed robbery and three related murders committed on October 20, 1981, by several Black Liberation Army members and four former members of the Weather Underground, who were at the time associated with the May 19th Communist Organization.
The Weather Underground Organization (WUO), whose members were often called Weatherman, was a radical leftist organization founded in 1969 and active through 1980. [1] The following is a list of some of the members of Weatherman.
May 18 - The bombing of the 103rd Police Precinct in New York. WUO states this is in response to the killing of 10-year-old black youth Clifford Glover by police. [29] [note 2] September 19 – A WUO member is arrested by the FBI in New York. Released on bond, this member again submerges into the underground.
Larry David Grathwohl (October 13, 1947 – July 18, 2013) [1] was a United States Army veteran and a Federal Bureau of Investigation informant in the 1970s. He infiltrated the Weather Underground [2] and co-wrote a book about his experiences: Bringing Down America: An FBI informer with the Weathermen (1976).
Diana Oughton (January 26, 1942 – March 6, 1970) was an American member of the Students for a Democratic Society (SDS) Michigan Chapter and later, a member of the 1960s radical group Weather Underground.