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Frontlash
Frontlash was a non-profit organization founded in 1968 to help minority and young people register to vote and to engage in voter education.〔Stetson, "Youth Group Is Pressing Blue-Collar and Minority Voters' Drive," ''New York Times,'' August 15, 1972.〕 Initially sponsored by the AFL-CIO, the United States Youth Council, and the NAACP Youth Council, the AFL-CIO became the group's most important financial sponsor and essentially took over Frontlash in 1971, becoming the labor federation's outreach program to younger Americans. Frontlash folded in 1997.
The organization was conceived by Penn Kemble, a Social Democrat and member of the Young People's Socialist League. The "Frontlash" name was a play on words, originally used in this context by President Lyndon B. Johnson in 1964〔(Brooklyn College: Lyndon Johnson and National Politics )〕 (it had previously been used in analogue computer construction and similar). The organization would work to counteract the "backlash" against liberalism by blue-collar workers. Kemble was the organization's first executive director.〔Martin, "Penn Kemble, 64, Is Dead," ''New York Times,'' October 23, 2005; Muravchik, "Comrades," ''Commentary,'' January 18, 2006.〕
==Structure==
Frontlash was funded almost entirely by the AFL-CIO after 1971. It was led by an executive director, who was appointed by the president of the AFL-CIO. Membership in Frontlash was extended to anyone, although the organization focused on building membership among people 30 years of age and younger. Local chapters formed primarily on college campuses, but some chapters formed in large cities (as the creations of AFL-CIO Central Labor Councils; their membership often remained minuscule). Frontlash chapters were usually democratic in nature, although they relied heavily on funds and staff from AFL-CIO appointed leaders in the central labor bodies. This dependency significantly checked the ability of Frontlash chapters to engage in independent action.
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