It Is not Enough to Survive by Jesse Montgomery - 9781469693958

It Is not Enough to SurviveThe Young Patriots Story\nAuthor(s): Jesse Montgomery\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: The University of North Carolina Press, United States\nImprint: The University of North Carolina Press\nISBN-13: 9781469693958, 978-1469693958\nSynopsis\nFormed in the late 1960s, the Young Patriots Organization was a Chicago-based radical group made up of young white migrants from Appalachia and the South who helped found Black Panther activist Fred Hamptons Rainbow Coalition. The YPO grew from a local street gang into a powerful political and social force in the citys Uptown neighborhood, where it fought against police brutality, racism, economic exploitation, and displacement through community organizing, the establishment of survival programs, and working-class cultural organizations.\n\nIn this first stand-alone history of the YPO, Jesse Montgomery presents the group as one of the New Lefts most enigmatic anti-racist organizationsone inspired by the moral and political .