Abbreviation OBS Location St. Louis, Missouri Chair Montague Simmons | Purpose activism Region United States | |
Formation 1980; 37 years ago (1980) | ||
Organization for Black Struggle is a St. Louis, Missouri-based activist organization founded in 1980. The organization seeks "political empowerment, economic justice and the cultural dignity of the African-American community, especially the Black working class." Organization for Black Struggle gained national attention when it joined with other organizations to publicly seek justice in the shooting of Michael Brown by a police officer on 2014.
In 2010, Montague Simmons became the chair of Organization for Black Struggle.
The organization was active in protests in Ferguson and St. Louis, Missouri following to police shootings of Michael Brown and Vonderrit Myers Jr. in 2014. During this period they are known to have received funding from the Open Society Foundation, associated with George Soros.