ARTICLES & ORIGINAL DOCUMENTS

The Young Patriots Organization and the original Rainbow Coalition website has a treasure trove of documents and articles, and is the best place to turn to for these resources. Additional articles and resources can be found below. See also these resource pages on the Black Panther Party and the Young Lords, and follow scholars of all of these Rainbow Coalition groups here.

Chuck Armsbury (profile in It’s About Time): Chuck Armsbury with the Patriot Party (on page 13).

Tana Ganeva: Resurrecting the alliance of black revolutionaries and Southern whites, decades after a government crackdown.

Barbara Joye: Young Patriots.

Martin Alexander Krzywy: Chicago’s White Appalachian Poor and the Rise of the Young Patriots Organization.

Michael McCanne: The Panthers and the Patriots: The story of how a group of poor whites in Chicago united with the Black Panthers to fight racism and capitalism.

Jeb Aram Middlebrook: Organizing a Rainbow Coalition of Revolutionary Solidarity.

Wikipedia entry.

William “Preacherman” Fesperman & Patrick King: Young Patriots at the United Front Against Fascism Conference (1969).

BOOKS

Amy Sonnie & James Tracy.  Hillbilly Nationalists, Urban Race Rebels, and Black Power: Community Organizing in Radical Times.

Hy Thurman: Revolutionary Hillbilly: Notes From The Struggle On The Edge Of The Rainbow.

Jakobi Williams: From the Bullet to the Ballot: The Illinois Chapter of the Black Panther Party and Racial Coalition Politics in Chicago.

VIDEOS & INTERVIEWS

Independent Lens documentary: The First Rainbow Coalition.

American Revolution 2: classic footage of Black Panther Bobby Lee at a Young Patriots meeting.

Young Patriot Hy Thurman leading a tour through Uptown. See also this hour-long discussion with Hy.

Biographer of the Young Patriots James Tracy, discussing the history of the Young Patriots.

Rainbow Coalition Panel, October 23rd, 2016 (Oakland California Museum).