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Activists like Richard Aoki for example, served as a Field Marshal of the Black Panther Party prior to helping to form AAPA.[citation needed] Another organization, Asian Americans for Action (AAA), founded in 1969 on the East Coast by two longtime-leftist Nisei women, Kazu Iijima and Minn Matsuda, was highly influenced by the Black Power Movement and the anti war movement, even much more than the AAPA. Yuri Kochiyama was also one of the organization's members.

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The influence of the Black Power movement in the efforts of Asian American activists can be seen in several instances. For example, Richard Aoki served as a field marshal in the Black Panther Party prior to helping to form the AAPA. Another organization, Asian Americans for Action (AAA), founded in 1969 on the East Coast by two longtime-leftist Nisei women, Kazu Iijima and Minn Matsuda, was highly influenced by the Black Power Movement and the anti war movement, even much more than the AAPA. Yuri Kochiyama was also one of the organization's members. Prior to joining the AAA, Kochimaya also played an active role in the Congress of Racial Equality and the Organization of Afro-American Unity.

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In the Early Developments section of the article, I added a citation that was missing in order to support the statement that Richard Aoki had served as a field marshal in the Black Panther Party. The source I added here is a peer-reviewed journal entitled "Spaces of Mobilization: The Asian American/Pacific Islander Struggle for Social Justice" by Adalberto Aguirre Jr. and Shoon Lio (2008) (see 9 in References section). In this same section, I also added a sentence about Yuri Kochiyama, who was already mentioned in this paragraph, to provide another example of the influence of the Black Power movement on the Asian American movement. --GlobeTrotter49 (talk) 02:03, 2 April 2023 (UTC)

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Wei, William. "Race Versus Gender: The Asian American Women's Movement." Book Chapter from The Asian American Movement, Temple University Press, 1993.

This source offers new perspectives (e.g., women) and sheds light on the intersectionality between gender and race by focusing on the role and contributions of Asian American women in the context of the Asian American movement.

Aguirre, Adalberto and Shoon Lio. "Spaces of Mobilization: The Asian American/Pacific Islander Struggle for Social Justice." Social Justice, 2008, Vol. 35, No. 2 (112), pp. 1-17.

This source explores the various spaces of mobilization in the Asian American movement, including communities and neighborhoods, workplaces (i.e., labor movements), queer/LGBTQ spaces, and feminist spaces. Thus, this source serves to provide content about this movement from diverse perspectives in terms of communities, gender, sexuality, etc. It also importantly traces how the Asian American movement was partially influenced by other movements occurring during this time, such as the Black Power movement. In addition to focusing on the Asian American movement in the context of the United States where this movement of the 1960s and 1970s occurred, this source also importantly situates the Asian American movement in a broader global context, discussing aspects such as the integration of Asia into the modern world system, imperialist competition, colonialism, wars, and decolonization.

Espiritu, Yen Le. "Coming Together: The Asian American Movement." Book Chapter from Asian American Panethnicity, Temple University Press, 1992.

This source focuses on the Asian American movement from a panethnic perspective. This source provides information on the formation and evolution of Asian American identity (e.g., panethnicity, the coining of the term "Asian American") at the heart of the Asian American movement. It sheds light on how different Asian American communities (e.g., Vietnamese, Korean, Chinese, etc.) came together and united in solidarity to achieve racial and social justice.

Meada, Daryl Joji. Rethinking the Asian American Movement. Taylor & Francis Group, 2011.

This source is a book that presents a more recent and nuanced analysis and discussion of the Asian American movement of the 1960s and 1970s. In addition to placing this movement within the broader context/historical developments of what was occurring at the time (e.g., Vietnam War, decolonization) and considering other movements for racial/social justice such as the Black Power movement, this source provides a detailed overview of important and central aspects of the Asian American movement. These aspects explored throughout the book include key organizations; campus activism; community activism in cities and the countryside; arts and culture; and interracialism, internationalism, and intersections of gender and race.