John Brown Anti-Klan Committee (JBAKC)
JBAKC was formed in 1977 (1978?) in response to the struggle of Black and Puerto Rican prisoners against KKK organizing among New York State prison guards. The goal was to combat the growing resurgence of the Ku Klux Klan in the south and elsewhere, and promote the mobilization of white people to fight white supremacy. The organization took its name from John Brown, the radical abolitionist who led the 1859 armed attack on a government arsenal at Harper’s Ferry, Virginia that played an important historical role in the militant anti-slavery movement that preceded the US Civil War. JBAKC was politically connected to and influenced by the New Afrikan People's Organization (NAPO) and the politics of New Afrika.
Major efforts of the John Brown Anti-Klan Committee included organizing counter protests at KKK and neo-Nazi demonstrations, reporting on Klan activity throughout the United States, and publishing communiques from clandestine organizations.
The collection includes several issues of JBAKC’s publications, Death to the Klan!, (published in New York, NY) and No KKK! No Fascist USA!, (published in San Francisco,CA), as well as flyers for events and demonstrations.
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John Brown Anti-Klan Committee (Chicago)
This collection contains materials from the John Brown Anti-Klan Committee's Chicago Chapter during a time when Ku Klux Klan and Neo-Nazi activity escalated in Northside and Southwest Side Chicago neighborhoods.
Documents
Death to the Klan! Summer 1986
Publisher: John Brown Anti-Klan CommitteeYear: 1986Volume Number: No. 6 SummerFormat: PeriodicalCollection: John Brown Anti-Klan Committee (JBAKC)
In this Issue: Klan Using Cable TV to Reach Millions; Centers for Black Survival; A look at the Puerto Rican Independence Movement; Fighting for Freedom (News on Political Prisoners); Commentary on Libya.
Also, Chicago to be "racist capitol of the word" says Klan; Marines Train NC Klan; Mobilizations Against Prison Control Units; Sandinistas Fight Amerikkka's Contras; Carrying on the Tradition of John Brown (by Marilyn Buck); Who is Mutulu Shakur; Stop Big Mountain Relocation; Azania: the Land Belongs to the People.
Stop the Grand Jury!
Publisher: John Brown Anti-Klan CommitteeDate: 11/1984Format: PeriodicalCollection: John Brown Anti-Klan Committee (JBAKC)
Articles on wave of grand juries in 1984
No KKK! No Fascist USA! - Spring/Summer 1989
Publisher: John Brown Anti-Klan CommitteeYear: 1989Volume Number: Spring-SummerFormat: PeriodicalCollection: John Brown Anti-Klan Committee (JBAKC)
Newspaper of the John Brown Anti-Klan Committee. In this issue: unity between the Ku Klux Klan and Neo-Nazis; Tom Metzger; the formation of the "Syndicate", an anti-racist organization made up of anti-racist skinheads; the origins of fascist and Neo-Nazi movements in Europe; an overview of Nazi white-supremacist actions throughout the U.S.; anti-racist response to Nazi Skinheads; the murder of an Ethiopian man by Nazi skinheads; KKK run out of Atlanta; Anti-Racist Resource List; Imari Obadele on the implications of the term "African-American"; book review of Fire on the Mountain; update on the fight to free Geronimo Pratt; movie review of Mississippi Burning; letters from readers.
Death to the Klan! November 1979
Publisher: John Brown Anti-Klan CommitteeDate: 11/1979Volume Number: Vol. 1-1Format: PeriodicalCollection: John Brown Anti-Klan Committee (JBAKC)
This is the first issue of the newsletter of the John Brown Anti-Klan Committee. Articles include Assata Shakur's escape from prison, an overview of advances in the Black liberation movement, an update on the fight to free the Pontiac Brothers, the murder by white police of a Black man in Texas, an editorial about Klan terror, the fight against white supremacy at City University of New York (CUNY), and information about a forum addressing the struggle to free the land for the Republic of New Afrika. This issue also includes the "Principles of Unity" outlining what white people need to do to actively oppose white supremacy.
Death to the Klan! December 1979
Publisher: John Brown Anti-Klan CommitteeDate: 12/1979Volume Number: Vol. 1-2Format: PeriodicalCollection: John Brown Anti-Klan Committee (JBAKC)
This issue of the newsletter includes articles about Klan activity, Zionist and white supremacist unity in opposition to Arab and Black liberation, the struggle against gentrification in Brooklyn, a march against the Klan in Texas, the assassination of Puerto Rican freedom fighter Angel Rodriguez Cristobal, a forum on U.S. imperialism and the struggle to free the Black nation, brutality against women in New Hampshire. The issue also includes the "Principles of Unity" which outlines what white people need to do to actively oppose white supremacy.
Death to the Klan! Jan/Feb 1980
Publisher: John Brown Anti-Klan CommitteeDate: 1/1980Volume Number: Vol. 1-3Format: PeriodicalCollection: John Brown Anti-Klan Committee (JBAKC)
Newsletter of the John Brown Anti-Klan Committee. In this issue: the Ku Klux Klan in the Northern United States; an editorial on the struggle against the Klan as a struggle against genocide; the murder of Emery Robinson, a Black teenager, by police in Westchester County, NY; an update on the struggle to free the Pontiac Brothers, facing charges stemming from a rebellion in Pontiac prison; Black students organizing against white supremacy at City College in New York, NY; Zimbabwe's victory against Britain.
26 Ways to Say No
Publisher: John Brown Anti-Klan CommitteeYear: 1989Format: FlyerCollection: John Brown Anti-Klan Committee (JBAKC)
Just Say No to Nazis campaign vs. nazi skinheads.
Death to the Klan June 1985
Publisher: John Brown Anti-Klan CommitteeDate: 6/1985Volume Number: No. 5Format: PeriodicalCollection: John Brown Anti-Klan Committee (JBAKC)
Newsletter of the John Brown Anti-Klan Committee. In this issue: response to police brutality in New York, NY, after a police officer receives a manslaughter conviction for killing Eleanor Bumpurs, in the course of an eviction; the rise of the White American Bastion; resistance again the Grand Jury in Washington D.C.; the Movement Against Racism and the Klan (MARK) and principles of non-collaboration; Political Prisoners at the MCC in New York, NY, protest torture; charges against captured revolutionaries, The Ohio 5; segregationists rioting in Chicago, IL; racist action by police around Lake Tahoe, NV and San Francisco, CA; Know Your Enemy report on white supremacist activities across the U.S.; Harper's Ferry, Part II; the Aryan Nation's use of a computer bulletin board to circumvent Canada's censorship laws; The Black Nation in Struggle report on the struggle for Black liberation throughout the U.S.; Israel's invasion of Lebanon; a review of the book Zionism in the Age of the Dictators; an interview with Nick Tucker of the Azanian People's Organization; Nelson Mandela's statement to Botha; a statement from Tim Blunk and Susan Rosenberg on revolutionary resistance; Chokwe Lumumba on the criminalization of the Black community; an editorial on the case of Bernhard Goetz; libel suits against news organizations reporting on Palestine and Vietnam; a report by Red Guerrilla Resistance on the Patrolman's Benevolent Association; the obituary of Puerto Rican poet and head of La Liga Socialista Juan Antonia Corretjer.
Stop Racist Attacks on Arab People in the U.S.
Publisher: John Brown Anti-Klan CommitteeYear: 1991Format: FlyerCollection: John Brown Anti-Klan Committee (JBAKC)
Flyer listing racist attacks on Arabs during the early 1990s and advertising a panel on racism during wartime.
No Nazis! No KKK! No Fascist USA!
Publisher: John Brown Anti-Klan CommitteeYear: 1989Format: FlyerCollection: John Brown Anti-Klan Committee (JBAKC)
Flyer for a counter-protest against a Nazi Skinhead recruiting rally in Rocklin, CA.