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![Self Respect, Self Defense & Self Determination - Part 1](images/fileicons/nodigital.png)
Date: 3/14/2004Call Number: CD 435Format: CDProducers: Freedom ArchivesCollection: Mabel and Robert F. Williams
Mabel Williams & Kathleen Cleaver in conversation - introduced by Angela Davis at the First Congregational Church - Oakland, CA.
Moderated by Rachel Herzing.
This is the complete audio (un-edited) and available as an edited Video.
![Self Respect, Self Defense & Self Determination - Part 2](images/fileicons/nodigital.png)
Date: 3/14/2004Call Number: CD 436Format: CDProducers: Freedom ArchivesCollection: Mabel and Robert F. Williams
Mabel Williams & Kathleen Cleaver in conversation - introduced by Angela Davis at the First Congregational Church - Oakland, CA.
Moderated by Rachel Herzing.
This is the complete audio (un-edited) and available as an edited Video.
![Mabel Williams interviewed by Walter Turner](images/fileicons/nodigital.png)
Date: 3/4/2004Call Number: CD 434Format: CDProducers: Walter TurnerProgram: Africa TodayCollection: Mabel and Robert F. Williams
Mabel Williams speaks about her life and work with Robert F Williams.
![Negroes with Guns: Rob Williams and Black Power](images/fileicons/nodigital.png)
Date: 1/1/2005Call Number: V 255Format: VHSProducers: Sandra Dickson, Churchill RobertsCollection: Mabel and Robert F. Williams
Robert F. Williams was the forefather of the Black Power movement and broke dramatic new ground by internationalizing the African American struggle. Negroes with Guns is not only an electrifying look at an historically erased leader, but also provides a thought-provoking examination of Black radicalism and resistance and serves as a launching pad for the study of Black liberation philosophies. Insightful interviews with historian Clayborn Carson, biographer Timothy Tyson, Julian Bond, and a first person account by Mabel Williams, Robert’s wife, bring the story to life.
Robert Franklin Williams was born in Monroe, North Carolina in 1925. As a young man he worked for the Ford Motor Company in Detroit until he was drafted into the United States Army in 1944—where he learned to take up arms.
Back in Monroe, Williams married Mabel Robinson, a young woman who shared his commitment to social justice and African American freedom. After the 1954 Brown v. Board of Education decision, Klan activity in Monroe skyrocketed, successfully intimidating African Americans and nearly shutting down the local chapter of the NAACP. Williams revived it to nearly 200 strong by reaching out to everyday laborers and to fellow Black veterans—men who were not easily intimidated. When repeated assaults on Black women in the county were ignored by the law, Williams filed for a charter from the NRA; the Black Armed Guard was born. During a 1957 integration campaign that faced violent white resistance, Williams’ armed defense guard successfully drove off legions of the Klan and electrified the Black community.
In 1961, Freedom Riders came to Monroe, planning to demonstrate the superior effectiveness of passive resistance over armed self-defense. They were bloodied, beaten and jailed, and finally called on Williams for protection from thousands of rioting Klansmen. Despite the threatening mobs, Williams sheltered a white family from violence, only to be later accused of kidnapping them. Fleeing death threats, Rob and Mabel gathered their children, left everything behind and fled for their lives—pursued by FBI agents on trumped-up kidnapping charges.
Williams and his family spent five years in Cuba where he wrote his electrifying book, Negroes With Guns and produced Radio Free Dixie for the international airwaves. They later moved on to China, where they were well received — but always longed for their forbidden home. In 1969, Williams exchanged his knowledge of the Chinese government for safe passage to the States. Rob and Mabel lived their remaining days together in Michigan where he died in 1995. His body was returned at long last to his hometown of Monroe, N.C.
![Negroes with Guns: Rob Williams and Black Power](images/fileicons/nodigital.png)
Date: 1/1/2005Call Number: V 566Format: DVDProducers: Sandra Dickson, Churchill RobertsCollection: Mabel and Robert F. Williams
Robert F. Williams was the forefather of the Black Power movement and broke dramatic new ground by internationalizing the African American struggle. Negroes with Guns is not only an electrifying look at an historically erased leader, but also provides a thought-provoking examination of Black radicalism and resistance and serves as a launching pad for the study of Black liberation philosophies. Insightful interviews with historian Clayborn Carson, biographer Timothy Tyson, Julian Bond, and a first person account by Mabel Williams, Robert’s wife, bring the story to life.
Robert Franklin Williams was born in Monroe, North Carolina in 1925. As a young man he worked for the Ford Motor Company in Detroit until he was drafted into the United States Army in 1944—where he learned to take up arms.
Back in Monroe, Williams married Mabel Robinson, a young woman who shared his commitment to social justice and African American freedom. After the 1954 Brown v. Board of Education decision, Klan activity in Monroe skyrocketed, successfully intimidating African Americans and nearly shutting down the local chapter of the NAACP. Williams revived it to nearly 200 strong by reaching out to everyday laborers and to fellow Black veterans—men who were not easily intimidated. When repeated assaults on Black women in the county were ignored by the law, Williams filed for a charter from the NRA; the Black Armed Guard was born. During a 1957 integration campaign that faced violent white resistance, Williams’ armed defense guard successfully drove off legions of the Klan and electrified the Black community.
In 1961, Freedom Riders came to Monroe, planning to demonstrate the superior effectiveness of passive resistance over armed self-defense. They were bloodied, beaten and jailed, and finally called on Williams for protection from thousands of rioting Klansmen. Despite the threatening mobs, Williams sheltered a white family from violence, only to be later accused of kidnapping them. Fleeing death threats, Rob and Mabel gathered their children, left everything behind and fled for their lives—pursued by FBI agents on trumped-up kidnapping charges.
Williams and his family spent five years in Cuba where he wrote his electrifying book, Negroes With Guns and produced Radio Free Dixie for the international airwaves. They later moved on to China, where they were well received — but always longed for their forbidden home. In 1969, Williams exchanged his knowledge of the Chinese government for safe passage to the States. Rob and Mabel lived their remaining days together in Michigan where he died in 1995. His body was returned at long last to his hometown of Monroe, N.C.
![The Land Question and Black Liberation](images/fileicons/nodigital.png)
Excerpt from the book: Eldridge Cleaver: Post-Prison Writings and Speeches.
![Black Power Mixtape 1967-1975](images/fileicons/nodigital.png)
Date: 1/1/2011Call Number: V 614Format: DVDProducers: Göran OlssonCollection: Videos – camera originals and reference materials
Footage shot by a group of Swedish journalists documenting the Black Power Movement in the United States is edited together by a contemporary Swedish filmmaker.
![Huey Newton Birthday Rally - 1](images/fileicons/nodigital.png)
Huey's 26th birthday at the Oakland Auditorium. Bobby Seale introduced by MC, Eldridge Cleaver.
![Bottomfish Blues: A Voice for the Amazon Nation [Winter 1987]](images/fileicons/nodigital.png)
Publisher: UnknownYear: 1987Call Number: Volume Number: No. 3 WinterFormat: PeriodicalCollection: Feminism and Women’s Liberation
Cover: The Coming of Black Genocide. An underground feminist newspaper that had an anti-colonial approach and sought to highlight and combat the complicity of white women in anti-Black genocide.
Articles include:
- Complicity of white women in anti-Black genocide
- Dialectical connection between violence against blacks and sexual violence against women.
- History of genocide
- Black genocide wouldn't work without white women. German women's complicity in Nazism. Abuse of babies and children.
- 1968: Year of decision. "Final solution" to black problem started in the 60s.
- The Moynihan Report (1965): black women are the target.
- Newark demolishes housing
- Strategy for Black Genocide. Analysis of "The Man Who Cried i Am", by John A. Williams, about US/CIA plan for destruction of Black population.
- First Law of Genocide: Criminalization. Comparison: U.S. treatment of Blacks with Germany's treatment of Jews.
- Black-On-Black crime. Need to improve education and High Schools.
- Violent /Brutality in Chicago inner-city. Comparison with Vietnam.
- Mechanics of Genocide. Treatment of Blacks and Indians. CIA history
- Genocide in Brooklyn. Destruction of Indians.
- Moynihan attack on Black women. Sexism of some black leaders. Critique of N.O.W, SNCC and SCLC.
- Kuwasi Balagoon dies of AIDS in prison.
- Comparison of white women in USA with women in Germany and South Africa
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