The May 19th Communist Organization (also variously referred to as the May 19 Coalition, May 19 Communist Coalition or M19CO) was a US-based far-left armed group formed by members of the Weather Underground Organization.The group was originally known as the New York chapter of the Prairie Fire Organizing Committee (PFOC), an organization devoted to promoting the …

Early life. Abigail May came from a prominent New England family. On her mother's side, she was born into the families of Sewall and Quincy.Her mother, Dorothy Sewall, was the great-granddaughter of Samuel Sewall, a presiding judge of the Salem witch trials.Her father, Colonel Joseph May, was a lauded Unitarian layman. As a child she did not regularly attend a formal …