Clip from interview with poet and activist Amiri Baraka (LeRoi Jones), in which he discusses the formation of the United Brothers and Committee for Unified Newark. The United Brothers was a coalition of Black leaders in Newark organized to develop a "Black United Front" to take power in the mayoral election of 1970. This coalition evolved into the Committee for Unified Newark, a "larger united front," consisting of the United Brothers, the Spirit House Movers and Players, and Black Community Development and Defense.
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Courtesy of the Henry Hampton Collection, Washington University Libraries
