Rising Up Angry was a militant community organization

Community organization

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based in working class communities in Chicago. They published a monthly newspaper also called Rising Up Angry from 1969 to 1975. The membership of the organization was at first a hybrid of local young white working class youth known as "greasers" and middle-class student revolutionaries associated with Students for a Democratic Society.