Part 3: Papers of the Revolutionary Action Movement

Part 3 of the "Black Power Movement" microfilm collection features the Papers of the Revolutionary Action Movement (RAM), 1962-1996. Consisting of the personal files of RAM founder and National Field Chairman Muhammad Ahmad (Maxwell Stanford) and of RAM members John H. Bracey Jr. and Ernie Allen Jr. it fills 17 reels of microfilm.

With the encouragement of several African American radicals, including Malcolm X, Ahmad formed the first RAM cadre of militants in Philadelphia in 1962. He continued his revolutionary political activity until he was arrested in Sept. 1972. In 1986 Max Stanford earned a Master's in Political Science from Atlanta University, his thesis was entitled "Revolutionary Action Movement (RAM): a Case Study of an Urban Revolutionary Movement in Western Capitalist Society". Today he teaches part-time in the History Department at Cleveland State University as a Lecturer in African-American History. Mr. Stanford has made available his extensive bibliography as well.

• Master of ArtsThesis, Atlanta University by Max Stanford
• Bibliography compiled by Max Stanford