Weather Underground

"Cathy Wilkerson: The Evolution of a Revolutionary"

Newspaper article

By: Margot Hornblower (Roosevelt)

Date: July 15, 1980

Source: The Washington Post, a daily national newspaper based in Washington, D.C.

About the Author: Award-winning journalist Margot Hornblower was a staff reporter for the Washington Post for 13 years, and later, known as Margot Roosevelt, became a national correspondent for Time magazine.

INTRODUCTION

The Weather Underground, also known as the Weathermen, was a leftist terrorist group that grew out of the student radicalism of the late 1960s. Most of its members, including Cathy Wilkerson, were white, middle class, well...

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