Block 23 of Ahmed Abdullah Weeksville Oral History (Q27004)

Ahmed Abdullah: I don’t knowmuch about the internal structure of the AACM [Association for the Advancement of Creative Musicians (AACM)], but the fact that it was an organization, and the fact that there is a real dire need for organization in the music… I would say they compare on that level. They (CBA) [Collective Black Artists] were musicians who decided that we needed to be organized, that...