Max Stanford

Maxwell Stanford
Muhammad Ahmad
Born
Maxwell Curtis Stanford, Jr

(1941-07-31) 31 July 1941 (age 83)
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, U.S.
Other names
  • Max Stanford
  • Maxwell C. Stanford
  • Maxwell Stanford, Jr.
OrganizationRevolutionary Action Movement (1962–68)

Muhammad Ahmad (born Maxwell Curtis Stanford, Jr. on 31 July 1941), also known as Max Stanford,[a] is an American civil rights activist. He was a cofounder and the national chairman of the Revolutionary Action Movement (RAM), a Marxist–Leninist,[1] black power[2] organisation active from 1962 to 1968.[3] He is the author of We Will Return in the Whirlwind: Black Radical Organizations 1960-1975 (Chicago: Charles H. Kerr Publishing Company, 2007), with an introduction by John Bracey Jr. As of 2024 he is working with Dylan Davis, PhD candidate in politics at the University of California Santa Cruz, on an updated edition.


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  1. ^ Cite error: The named reference :3 was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  2. ^ "Maxwell Curtis Stanford Jr. (a.k.a. Muhammad Ahmad) (1941- ) •". 2011-01-12. Retrieved 2023-03-14.
  3. ^ Jones, John (May 19, 2019). "A History of the Revolutionary Action Movement" (PDF). Marxists Internet Archive. p. 87. By the end of 1968 RAM was dissolved as an official organization.