Young Patriots Organization

The Young Patriots Organization or (YPO) was an American leftist organization of mostly White Southerners from Uptown, Chicago. Originating in 1968 and active until 1973, the organization was designed to support young, white migrants from the Appalachia region who experienced extreme poverty, discrimination, and alienation. Along with the Illinois Black Panther Party and the Young Lords, the Young Patriots Organization formed the Rainbow Coalition, a group of allied but racially separate organizations each focused on helping with issues of poverty and discrimination, imperialism, exploitation, sexism etc. in their local community while working together towards anti-racist and socialist goals.

See also

• Black Panther Party for Self-Defense