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Young Patriots Organization
The Young Patriots Organization of the United States under the leadership of William(Preacherman)Fesperman was a highly political organization of Appalachian youths in the 1960s and 1970s that allied itself with Fred Hampton of the Black Panther Party and Jose(Cha-Cha)Jimenez of the Young Lords Organization.Together,they helped to form the Rainbow Coalition (no relation to Jesse Jackson's Rainbow Coalition, which came later), in several United States cities.
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