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BUILD and FIGHT were created before the Black Panther Party (BPP), and though they were influenced by national movements and organizations, they used local strategies to dismantle discrimination in urban renewal projects, created their own community-owned factories and campaigned against police brutality. This local focus led to many successful campaigns and programs, including FIGHT's attack on the Eastman Kodak Company's racially discriminatory hiring, the creation of the community owned and controlled factory FIGHTON, the establishment of the exclusively African American BUILD Academy, and the intervention and support of the Attica Brothers during the prison rebellion of 1971. BUILD and FIGHT sent powerful messages of Black solidarity to residents and took control of federal initiatives like urban renewal and the War on Poverty while coercing big businesses to heed to their demands to hire poor, urban African Americans. 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