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Welcome to the Freedom Archives' Digital Search Engine.The Freedom Archives contains over 12,000 hours of audio and video recordings which date from the late-1960s to the mid-90s and chronicle the progressive history of the Bay Area, the United States, and international movements. We are also in the process of scanning and uploading thousands of historical documents which enrich our media holdings. Our collection includes weekly news, poetry, music programs; in-depth interviews and reports on social and cultural issues; numerous voices from behind prison walls; diverse activists; and pamphlets, journals and other materials from many radical organizations and movements.

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The Crusader Monthly Newsletter (December 1967) The Crusader Monthly Newsletter (December 1967)
Author: Robert F. WilliamsDate: 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 (September-October 1967) The Crusader Monthly Newsletter (September-October 1967)
Author: Robert F. WilliamsYear: 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 (March 1967) The Crusader Monthly Newsletter (March 1967)
Author: Robert F. WilliamsDate: 3/1967Volume Number: Vol. 8-3Format: PeriodicalCollection: Mabel and Robert F. Williams
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) The Crusader Monthly Newsletter (May 1967)
Author: Robert F. WilliamsDate: 5/1967Volume Number: Vol. 8-4Format: PeriodicalCollection: Mabel and Robert F. Williams
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 Crusader Monthly Newsletter (January 1967)
Author: Robert F. WilliamsDate: 1/1967Volume Number: Vol. 8-2Format: PeriodicalCollection: Mabel and Robert F. Williams
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.