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Rising Up Angry, 1969, first group photo
Howie King, Peter Kuttner, Mark Mardell, Richard Kroth and others at a Rising Up Angry meeting, 1971
Diane Fager and Mary Driscoll, at corner of Lincoln and Belmont, Chicago. Passing out copies of Rising Up Angry and rapping to the People
Bob Lawson, Norie Davis and others, Rising Up Angry members, 1970's
Group photo of Rising Up Angry members and people they were trying to organize. Members in the photo are Michael Gaylord James, Steve Tapes, Patrick (Patrix) Sturgess and others, 1972 or so
Black Panter Bobby Rush, Rising Up Angry member Michael Gaylord James and others at a WTTW Chicago television broadcast after the assignation for Black Panther Chicago Chairmen Fred Hampton
Michael Gaylord James and Judy Tisher, in a series of shots that were intended to be on the 1st cover of Rising Up Angry. The photo that made it featured Peter Hoyer. 1969
Rising Up Angry Group shot, 1969. Members Pat Sturges, Steve Tappis, Michael Gaylord James and others.
Rising Up Angry office, 1969 or 1970.
Black Panther West Coast Chairman Huey Newton and Rising Up Angry member Bozo, 1970
Rising Up Angry meeting at a secluded retreat somewhere in Indiana with Michael Gaylord James, Steve Tappis, Norrie Davis and others, approx 1972
Rising Up Angry member Steve Tappis. A recruit from New York. A righteous dude then and now. 1972 approx.
Rising Up Angry member Steve Tappis, 1972 approx
Rising Up Angry member Michael Gaylord James speaking at a rally after the assassination of the 21 year old Chicago Black Panther Chairman Fred Hampton, December 1969
Rising Up Angry member Michael Gaylord James speaking at a rally after the assassination of the 21 year old Chicago Black Panther Chairman Fred Hampton, December 1969
1972 -Rising Up Angry members taking a break while building out the 2nd headquarters of the organization at 1215 W. Belmont. I don't know all the names. Mark Madell, Fritz Kraley, Richard Kroth (aka Pipe) Norie Davis. The building later became the Theater Building which hosted a wide ranges of rad plays. Now it's a fucking god awful mixed use monstosity.
An early Rising Up Angry meeting, I think in a remote location in Indiana sometime in the early 1970's. Michael Gaylord James, Jimmy Wort Hog Cartier and others.
Rising Up Angry meeting in the early 1970's. Im not sure who these people are. If you know, please contact me.
Rising Up Angry meeting in the early 1970's with Bob Lawson (far left) and others
Rising Up Angry meeting in the early 1970's with Steve Tappis (far right ) and others
Rising Up Angry member Pat Sturgis (aka Patrix). He later founded Beans and Barley, a popular Milwaukee restaurant and health food store that was of the same cloth as Chicago's Heartland Cafe.
Rising Up Angry member and Viet Nam veteran Al Metzger at a benefit likely at RU's Fritzi Engelstein Peoples Clinic that provided free healthcare. Early 1970's
Rising Up Angry original members and Lake Forest College pals Michael Gaylord James and Pat Stugis on a road trip somewhere out west. Early 1970's
Norrie Davis, rest in Peace. Rising Up Angry member who later started a Design firm that did wonderful work for progressive organizations. Early 1970's
Rising Up Angry members, groomsmen at I believe Howie King's wedding. Early 1970's
Rising Up Angry members Patrix Sturgis and Michael Gaylord James
Diane Libman, aka Stormy. Rising Up Angry original member passing out papers at a convention at Chicago's McCormick center. She and Aaron Fagan were the primary people who produced the newspaper. They were the keyline pasteup artists, designers, art directors, she also typed all the stories and contributed to the content as well.
Diane Libman, aka Stormy. Rising Up Angry original member passing out papers at a convention at Chicago's McCormick center. She and Aaron Fagan were the primary people who produced the newspaper. They were the keyline pasteup artists, designers, art directors, she also typed all the stories and contributed to the content as well.
Rising Up Angry members Howie King and Ann Burke, later married. 1970's
Rising Up Angry member Michael Gaylord James speaking at a rally, 1970's.
Rising Up Angry member Bill Bonner. A Southside ruffian who became enlightened, then later became a fire captain.
Mug shot of Rising Up Angry member Michael Gaylord James. Like most members, they were illegally spied upon by a secret department of the Chicago Police called the Red Squad. Later, member Peter Kuttner won a lawsuit against the Red Squad and donated the $30,000 award to charity.
Rising Up Angry car.
Rising Up Angry member, and key production and artistic contributor of the newspaper. 1970's
Rising Up Angry member Diane Libman, aka Stormy with her son David at the White Castle Restaurant on Elston Avenue on Chicago's North Side. 1970's
Rising Up Angry Michael Gaylord James speaking at.a protest. Likely resistance to police brutality based on the sign.
Rising Up Angry members Mary Driscoll and Aaron Fager and the Fritzi Engelstein Peoples clinic that provided free health care. 1970's
Rising Up Angry group shot with various members and their children.
Rising Up Angry member Pat Sturgis, aka Patrix, and ? cooking in the kitchen for the RUA free breakfast program for kids. 1970's
Rising Up Angry member Michael Gaylord James at a meeting. 1970's
Rising Up Angry members Michael Gaylord James and Diane Libman, aka Stormy. Kim Brown, Stormy's sister on the left.
Rising Up Angry member Michael Gaylord James and others at a meeting in the early 1970's.
Rising Up Angry member Michael Gaylord James speaking. Could have been at the American Indian Movement headquarters on Wilson Avenue in Chicago.
Rising Up Angry member and Marine in the Viet Nam War building out the new RUA headquarters, 1972.
Rising Up Angry benefit concert in the Lakeview neighborhood in Chicago. 1970's
Rising Up Angry member Jim Ruckoff at a meeting.
Rising Up Angry members would regularly head out to the streets of Chicago and look for groups of kids hanging out on the corner. They would give them a copy of the paper, and talk to them, in the hopes that they would either join the organization, or attend a RUA event.
Rising Up Angry member Diane Fager and ? passing out newspapers on the corner of Lincoln and Belmont in Chicago. 1970's
Rising Up Angry group shot with various members and friends including Sandy Sanderson, Michael Gaylord James and others.
On of many cool shots Rising Up Angry members took while they were out on the streets of Chicago organizing. I was on many of these excursions, the moment could be simply saying ay, power to the people and raising a fist. Often the kid would respond with a smile and a fist raise. Most often, these moments turned into conversations, and an invite to a RUA event.
Rising Up Angry members Patrix Sturgis, Jimmy Cartier (aka Wort Hog) and others in front of the 3 Penny Cinema on Lincoln Avenue in Chicago. 1970's
Rising Up Angry member Steve Tappis at a RUA event. They were most often overly or covertly watched and sometimes interrupted by the Pigs.
Rising Up Angry group shot with members and "Friends of Angry." RUA sought members, but also they sought friends who got a "Friends of Angry membership piece of paper.
Rising Up Angry boycotting in front of Jewel on behalf of the United Farm Workers. The kid in the dark jacket is Jesse Hampton James, one of the 4 sons of RUA member Michael James.
Chicago Black Panther members Mark Clark, Chairman Fred Hampton, and Bobby Rush who later became a congressman.
Chicago Black Panther Chairman Fred Hampton, rest in power. Rising Up Angry drew inspiration from the BPP in many ways, including adopting their free social services concept.
High School students reading Rising Up Angry outside of Shurz High School on Chicago's North Side, 1970's.
Group shot at one of many Rising Up Angry concerts. Some were at parks, others were at street fairs, and many were held at the RUA's Great Hall of the People in the Midland Hotel, The Wobbly Hall on Lincoln Avenue above the 3 Penny Cinema, the Peoples Church in Uptown, and at Columbia College dance center.
Tear gas in Grant Park Chicago, Sly Stone concert that never came to be because he didn't show. Tensions were high, the Chicago Police had hundreds of police in riot gear. Police Helicopters hovered above and they proceeded with Mayor Daley's brutal oppressive tactics of charging the crowd, beating people with billy clubs, shooting tear gas and arresting (then brutalizing) as many people as they could.
Chicago Police arresting Rising Up Angry member Bill Bonner. 1970's
Police brutality outside the 1968 Democratic Convention in Chicago. Rising Up Angry members went to Grant Park to protest
Rising Up Angry march on North Paulina Street by Hamilton Elementary School.
Rising Up Angry march against the Viet Nam War, 1970's.
Kids on the street. Rising Up Angry would seek out kids and invite them to their events. Some would join the organization. Others would see a new point of view. 1970's
Rising Up Angry's goal was to build a rainbow coalition of working class people, including gang members of opposing gangs, trying to get them together to see the futility of fighting each other when the real enemy was the systematic oppression of the people by the War Mongering criminal establishment.
A group of gangsters in Chicago. Rising Up Angry often approached these groups and invited them to their events, trying to build a rainbow coalition that worked together rather than fighting each other. 1970's
Latin Eagles, Chicago. Rising Up Angry did outreach to kids from White and Latino gangs, trying to bring them together by inviting them to their events that offered them a chance to do some good in the world rather than fighting each other. There was usually one or two in the group who checked out an event.
After a few years, as the members of Rising Up Angry started to have kids and get a bit older, they discouraged Graphitti. Graphitti artists in an alley, Chicago. 1970's
Ronnie Bronski, (center), Bill Bonner, (right) Rising Up Angry members. 1974
After a few years, as the members of Rising Up Angry started to have kids and get a bit older, they discouraged Graphitti. Graphitti artists in an alley, Chicago. 1970's
The Young Lords and Cha Cha Jimenez protested their oppression and the gentrification and displacement of the Latino community in Chicago. They protested by taking over the McCormick Theological Seminary in Lincoln Park Chicago. Rising Up Angry had alliances with the Young Lords and the Black Panthers in an effort to create a Rainbow Coalition. - May 1969
Chicago graphitti. 1970's
A Rising Up Angry benefit concert. 1975
A Rising Up Angry benefit concert in the hot summer sun. Chicago 1970's
A Rising Up Angry benefit concert. There were many bands that played these concerts over the years including Taxi (RUA's Richard Kroth was a member) and the Piranha Brothers (RUA's Mike McGraw was a member) 1970's
Food often served at Rising Up Angry benefit concert, 1970's
Kids at a A Rising Up Angry benefit concert 1970's
A Rising Up Angry benefit concert 1970's
A Rising Up Angry benefit concert. 1970's
A Rising Up Angry benefit concert. 1970's
A Rising Up Angry benefit concert. 1970's
Peter Kuttner, at a Rising Up Angry benefit concert. 1970's
Rising Up Angry free breakfast for kids program, it was good food, I had many. 1970's
Rising Up Angry member Richard Kroth, aka Pipe, also a member of the band Taxi.
Rising Up Angry supported the United Farm Workers and the boycotts of Jewel food stores in Chicago because they supported unfair labor practices.
Rising Up Angry member Patrick Sturgis, aka Patrix. 1970's. Kickapoo WI concert.
Rising Up Angry hosted benefit Kickapoo WI concert. 1970
Jimmy Cartier (aka Wort Hog) at a Rising Up Angry hosted benefit concert Kickapoo WI. 1970
Rising Up Angry hosted benefit concert Kickapoo WI. 1970
Rising Up Angry hosted benefit concert Kickapoo WI. 1970
Rising Up Angry hosted benefit concert Kickapoo WI. 1970
Rising Up Angry went to Cuba in the early 1970's to meet with officials and workers in an effort to learn about ways to integrate better labor and life practices back in the States.
Rising Up Angry went to Cuba in the early 1970's to meet with officials and workers in an effort to learn about ways to integrate better labor and life practices back in the States.
A JOIN Community Union meeting in the late 1960's prior to the start of Rising Up Angry.
American Indian Movement protest, attended and supported by Rising Up Angry. 1970's
American Indian Movement protest, attended and supported by Rising Up Angry. 1970's
American Indian Movement protest, attended and supported by Rising Up Angry. 1970's
Little Dovie, JOIN Community Union member.
JOIN Community Union, was in part the inspiration for the development of Rising Up Angry. Harry Belafonte in the center was a supporter. Peggy Terry, far right, founding memberof JOIN and also running mate with Eldridge Cleaver as they ran for VP and President. in 1968.
JOIN Community Union Members, 1968
Rising Up Angry benefit concert in the Uptown neighborhood of Chicago. Michael Gaylord James, RUA member in back. 1970
Little Dovie, JOIN Community Union. 1967
Big Dovie, JOIN Community Union. 1967
JOIN Community Union members , 1967
Abbie Dring, Nurse at Rising Up Angry's Fritzi Engelsten Clinic, 1970.
Bob Lawson, speaking at a Rising Up Angry event. Bob went on to become a driving force in Union Organizing.
Rising Up Angry free breakfast program. 1972
Rissing Up Angry's Fritzi Engelstein Clinic, 1974
Kids at the Rising Up Angry free breakfast program. 1975
A concert at Rising Up Angry's, The Great Hall of the People, 1969
Mona and Lydia, Rising Up Angry members at a block party. 1974
Hope Metzger, (aka Hopey) Rising Up Angry red diaper baby. 1973
Rising Up Angry attends a United Farm Workers March. 1970's
International Women's Day, 1976
Kids outside of Shurz High School, 1974
Rinsing Up Angry Members Oak and Melva Okun with their daughter
? , Norie Davis, and Maine, Rising Up Angry, 1972
Rising Up Angry members Abbie Dring, Jesse James (child) and ? at a boycott Jewel March in support of the United Farm Wokers, 1973
Rising Up Angry member Richard Kroth (aka Pipe) being harassed at a benefit concert, 1972
Michael Gaylord James, Rising Up Angry member, 1975
Rising Up Angry Women's retreat, Union Point Michigan
Peter Kuttner, Mary Wozniak, Patrick Sturgis, Rising Up Angry members at a benefit concert, 1974