New issue of The Patriot added to Spark collection: `1970
Volume 1 Number 2 of The Patriot published July 21, 1970 has been added to the online Spark collection after being scanned by a hand-held camera from a copy held at Amherst College.
The Patriot was the national newspaper of the Patriot Party, a white left-wing revolutionary organization aligned with the Black Panther Party, that was distributed in the greater Washington, D.C. area in 1970.
The Patriot Party was initially formed as the Young Patriots Organization in Chicago and later expanded nationwide as the Patriot Party. It was one of the component organizations of Black Panther Fred Hampton’s original Rainbow Coalition in Chicago.
They rejected white supremacy but wore a confederate flag patch on their shirts.
They organized in the Washington, D.C. area 1970-71 out of the Panther office on 18th Street NW and their Community Center on 17th Street NW focusing on far southeast Washington where working class whites still lived and the inner suburbs of Prince George’s County.
Among the members in Washington, D.C. were Danny Embry, a former U.S. Marine who survived Vietnam without a scratch but was left with a limp after being tossed into a police van while picketing in support of striking furniture workers. Embry, his wife Elise and Jenny Stearns formed the core of the Patriot organization in the D.C. area.
Another prominent organizer was Steven "Nick" Greer, the former head of the Students for Democratic Society chapter at George Washington University.
They planned to set up a free breakfast for children program, establish a liberation school and initiate a health clinic in a white working class neighborhood—emulating the Black Panthers’ program of serving the people.
However, the Patriots struggled in the D.C. as Arthur Turco, one of the leaders of the national organization, was indicted in May 1970 for ordering the killing of Baltimore Black Panther suspected of being an informant.
Police also raided the local D.C. Panther office more than once, necessitating a constant vigilance to protect the local Panthers. The indictment of Turco and a number of Baltimore Panthers, along with the threats in D.C., consumed much of the effort by Patriot organizers in the Washington area.
By mid-1971, the D.C. group realized it had become little more than a Panther support committee and folded.
The organization was not related to the later right-wing organization of the same name.
Two other organizations also attempted to form white revolutionary organizations aligned with the Black Panther Party—Rising Up Angry based in Chicago, IL and the White Panther Party based in Detroit and Ann Arbor, MI.
There were three issues of The Patriot. We currently have two. For a PDF of this 16-page tabloid, see:
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For more information and related images, see flic.kr/s/aHsmGkArk4
Volume 1 Number 1 was donated by Robert “Bob” Simpson. Volume 1 Number 2 was scanned with a handheld cell phone from an original held in the Marshall Bloom (AC 1966) Alternative Press Collection, Amherst College Archive and Special Collections Box P5.
New issue of The Patriot added to Spark collection: `1970
Volume 1 Number 2 of The Patriot published July 21, 1970 has been added to the online Spark collection after being scanned by a hand-held camera from a copy held at Amherst College.
The Patriot was the national newspaper of the Patriot Party, a white left-wing revolutionary organization aligned with the Black Panther Party, that was distributed in the greater Washington, D.C. area in 1970.
The Patriot Party was initially formed as the Young Patriots Organization in Chicago and later expanded nationwide as the Patriot Party. It was one of the component organizations of Black Panther Fred Hampton’s original Rainbow Coalition in Chicago.
They rejected white supremacy but wore a confederate flag patch on their shirts.
They organized in the Washington, D.C. area 1970-71 out of the Panther office on 18th Street NW and their Community Center on 17th Street NW focusing on far southeast Washington where working class whites still lived and the inner suburbs of Prince George’s County.
Among the members in Washington, D.C. were Danny Embry, a former U.S. Marine who survived Vietnam without a scratch but was left with a limp after being tossed into a police van while picketing in support of striking furniture workers. Embry, his wife Elise and Jenny Stearns formed the core of the Patriot organization in the D.C. area.
Another prominent organizer was Steven "Nick" Greer, the former head of the Students for Democratic Society chapter at George Washington University.
They planned to set up a free breakfast for children program, establish a liberation school and initiate a health clinic in a white working class neighborhood—emulating the Black Panthers’ program of serving the people.
However, the Patriots struggled in the D.C. as Arthur Turco, one of the leaders of the national organization, was indicted in May 1970 for ordering the killing of Baltimore Black Panther suspected of being an informant.
Police also raided the local D.C. Panther office more than once, necessitating a constant vigilance to protect the local Panthers. The indictment of Turco and a number of Baltimore Panthers, along with the threats in D.C., consumed much of the effort by Patriot organizers in the Washington area.
By mid-1971, the D.C. group realized it had become little more than a Panther support committee and folded.
The organization was not related to the later right-wing organization of the same name.
Two other organizations also attempted to form white revolutionary organizations aligned with the Black Panther Party—Rising Up Angry based in Chicago, IL and the White Panther Party based in Detroit and Ann Arbor, MI.
There were three issues of The Patriot. We currently have two. For a PDF of this 16-page tabloid, see:
Vol. 1 No. 1 – March 21, 1970 - washingtonspark.files.wordpress.com/2020/05/1970-03-25-th...
Vol. 2 No. 2 – July 21, 1970 - washingtonareaspark.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/02/vol-1-...
For other alternative periodicals, see washingtonareaspark.com/contributors/periodicals/
For more information and related images, see flic.kr/s/aHsmGkArk4
Volume 1 Number 1 was donated by Robert “Bob” Simpson. Volume 1 Number 2 was scanned with a handheld cell phone from an original held in the Marshall Bloom (AC 1966) Alternative Press Collection, Amherst College Archive and Special Collections Box P5.