1. Max Stanford was born on 31 July 1941 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
10 Facts About Max Stanford
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Max Stanford described his family as "very political" and attributes the development of his political consciousness to his father.
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Max Stanford graduated from West Philadelphia High School and attended Central State College in Wilberforce, Ohio from 1960 to 1962.
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RAM was one of the groups targeted by the program and Stanford was even referred to as "the most dangerous man in America", by J Edgar Hoover.
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In 1966, Max Stanford was arrested in New York, along with 15 other RAM members, accused of conspiring to assassinate NAACP leader Roy Wilkins and the Urban League's Whitney Young.
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Max Stanford was acquitted of the charges and he returned to Philadelphia to establish the Black Guard, a youth and self-defense wing of RAM.
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Max Stanford was arrested by police on 26 July 1967 and accused of planning with RAM to start a riot.
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Subsequently, Max Stanford dissolved RAM in 1968, and its members joined other organisations.
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Max Stanford converted to Islam in 1970 and adopted the name Muhammad Ahmad.
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Max Stanford earned a Bachelor of Arts degree from the University of Massachusetts and a Master of Arts from Atlanta University in 1986.