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The Crusader Monthly Newsletter (December 1967)
Date: 12/1967Volume Number: Vol. 9-3 DecemberFormat: PeriodicalCollection: Mabel and Robert F. Williams
Why I Propose to Return to Racist America: Williams debates on whether to return to U.S., as he was indicted in Monroe County, NC, on charges of kidnapping – stemming from a 1961 incident where a white couple, described by Williams as “fascist agitators against black freedom fighters,” sought shelter in Williams’s house to escape an angry crowd of Black demonstrators. Monroe County turned that incident into a charge of kidnapping for Williams. Williams cites numerous instances he has witnessed of extreme racist discrimination and completely unjustified violence towards Black people. Williams recounts running for mayor of Monroe in 1960, saying he and his supporters drafted a 10-point platform which included fair employment, school integration, integrated medical facilities, non-discrimination in welfare aid, and abolishment of police brutality. For six years he was a main target of racist threats and attacks, and he had to have an armed guard of 30 volunteers posted around his house at night. Williams says the only crime he is guilty of is being in opposition to tyranny. Williams says he wants to return to U.S., but in order for him to return and face the phony charges, a massive international campaign must be waged to witness and challenge the U.S. kangaroo court system.
The Crusader Monthly Newsletter (March 1968)
Reaction Without Positive Change: White community is still motivated, in its relations with Black community, by master-slave mentality. As government threatens to use tanks for the long, hot summer ahead, Williams cautions to stand by for a new phase of violence; USA: The New Auction Block – Williams compares African chiefs selling their people into slavery with modern-day Black mercenaries being bought off by white power structure; US Aggression in Vietnam: The Quagmire of Death re: more and more Blacks being pressured to fight white man’s racist war in Vietnam; Kangarooism: The Plague of Bigoted Justice – Williams likens America’s racist court system to institutionalized lynch mobs, says a liberation struggle must not be hampered by limiting itself to only one method of struggle; Beware the International Liquidationist Movement – infiltration of Marxist movement to insist that the struggle is more one of class than of race; In China: a New Wonder of the World, re: Williams’s recent tour of China and his witness to the indomitable spirit of the Chinese people; Fear Not to Be Called Racist – white supremacists using racist designations to shame Blacks out of self-dense and unity.
The Crusader Monthly Newsletter (September-October 1967)
Year: 1967Volume Number: Vol. 9-2 September-OctoberFormat: PeriodicalCollection: Mabel and Robert F. Williams
USA: The Potential of a Minority Revolution Part III: Williams again raises the question, could a minority revolution succeed in US. What’s required is total revolutionary unity among the youth, a strong revolutionary nationalist spirit throughout the country, a high quality of leadership. “Revolt is a natural response to brutally sustained tyranny.” Call to protest the ban of The Crusader from U.S. mail.
The Crusader Monthly Newsletter (October 1966)
China's 17 Anniversary: Afro-Americans Represented - speech at rally by Robert F. Williams Message from Mammoth Peking August 8th Rally re: American Black struggle; USA – The Impending Crisis re: racism and imperialism natural attributes of capitalism social system; China: Glorious Red Guards Dash the Evil Hopes of Reactionaries Everywhere – re: Red Guards of China are servants of the people; Lie Down with the Devil and Die – re: fate of blacks who take up whites’ battle standard; Kill Baby Kill re: those who “peacefully” submit are also dead.
The Crusader Monthly Newsletter (March 1967)
USA: Stand By for Violence - re: growing white racist hate groups organizing for massive violence, “liquidationist” blacks more apt to denounce Black Power self-defense than these racist hate groups – call for organization and unity; The Plague of the Subversive Scarecrows – re: new breed of “Uncle Tom journalists”; USA: The Legacy of Scarecrowism - re: systematic exclusion of Black people from juries based on race and class, Blacks who get on juries must stop being “yes men” in court; The Good of the Earth – re: life in Cuba; Cuba: The Tragedy of No Proletarian Cultural Revolution – re: petty bourgeois has regained the reins of power in Cuba; What Color Unity? – in support of the role of revolutionary Whites in conditioning whites for future unified action with Blacks; Marzani and Munzell: Moscow Oriented Rogues – re: publishers of Negroes with Guns refusing to pay royalties to Williams; Agent at Large: Revolutionaries Beware! – denouncing D.H. Mansur, operating out of Tanzania; China’s Cultural Revolution – re: necessity for and objectives of Cultural Revolution.
The Crusader Monthly Newsletter (May 1967)
Wither Goeth the Peace Movement - re: Dr. King calling for peace in Viet Nam; America Is the Black Man’s Battleground – re: battleground should be where the oppression is ; Chicago: The Dixie Carpetbaggers Are Coming – re: Henry Hall Wilson Jr. of Monroe, NC being carried over from Kennedy Administration to Johnson Administration; On Being Partial Without Apology; The Underworld of Subversion – a call to infiltrate police and CIA; Mohammad Ali: World Champion; Report from Havana on “Che” Guevara: Good News?; Crusader Forged: Counterfeiters Strike Again – re: “Special October 1965 Edition” bogus; Dialogue: Two Exiles.
The Crusader Monthly Newsletter (January 1967)
The Fourth Estate: Sambo Journalism re: Black press – many current Black journalists are brainwashed by White institutions; Seven Plagues of the Ghetto re: 7 so-called civil rights leaders repudiating Black power; Only in America, Mr. Golden re: Harry Golden of Charlotte, NC, big wheel in influencing NAACP policy; Thunder in the East re: Chinese Cultural Revolution is a mass movement of the people; The Front Lash of U.S. Racism – critique of criticism that black power damages civil rights struggle; Critics with Unsoiled Hands re: critics who say everything is wrong about civil rights movement but have nothing concrete to offer.
The Crusader Monthly Newsletter (May-June 1964)
Year: 1964Volume Number: Vol. 5-4 May-JuneFormat: PeriodicalCollection: Mabel and Robert F. Williams
USA: The Potential of a Minority Revolution: On violent resistance, that with non-violence, only the blood of the oppressed will flow; to say that violent resistance brings annihilation points out the beastly nature of the oppressor. “The white barbaric racist is coded a ‘white only’ special privilege in the realm of all violence, both justified and unjustified.” “Our greatest enemy is our defeatist attitude .” “The soft society is highly susceptible to panic.” “What is integration when the law says yes, but the police and howling mobs say no?” Self-defense must be based on justice, not vengeance. “We merely advocate self-defense for brutalized Afro-americans .” Sydney, Australia – students protesting against racial discrimination in U.S.; Association of Negro Studies in Kobe, Japan.
The Crusader Monthly Newsletter (March 1965)
Speech: Delivered at the International Conference for Solidarity with the People of Vietnam Against US Imperialist Aggression for the Defense of Peace. Hanoi Democratic Republic of Vietnam. November 25-29, 1965; China: America’s Shades of Waterloo – re: advances of Chinese society played down and belittled in America; Carpetbaggers of the Fourth Estate – calling for careful scrutiny of “slight-of-the pen” artists who insist that all manner of publicity good for the nationalist cause, also beware of so-called leftists who spread lies about Black nationalism abroad to thwart unity among Afro-Americans, Latin Americans, Asians, and Africans; An Oscar for a Gorilla – re: right to vote, Selma and Marion, AL; Malcolm X: Death Without Silence – re: Malcolm X’s assassination; The Impending Heat Wave – re: Civil Rights Bill, right to vote, white supremacists continuing to have access to weapons.