Black Independent Political Organization (BIPO)

CTL-E-1222 · Organization · political · 1980s, 1990s, 2000s

PROVISIONAL evidence grade of this record

Independent Black political organization for voter education and mobilization, deliberately separate from both the Daley machine and the official Washington campaign Geography: Chicago, Illinois

Notes

Merged into canonical KG 2026-10-03 from INST-001; source entity IDs: CTL-DR-INST-001:INST-011; source research type(s): political_organization.

Sources

https://www.thehistorymakers.org/biography/lutrelle-lu-f-palmer-ii
https://www.congress.gov/congressional-record/volume-150/issue-109/house-section/article/H7187-7
http://eblackchicago.org/HAROLD/pdf/6.pdf

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