Mabel and Robert F. Williams
Robert Franklin Williams was a civil rights leader, the president of the Monroe, North Carolina NAACP chapter in the 1950s and early 1960s, and author. After fleeing North Carolina for advocating, teaching and practicing self-defense, he became a staunch internationalist living in Cuba and China before returning to the United States. While she often downplayed her role, Mabel, among many other activities, illustrated and wrote articles for their influential newsletter The Crusader, narrated and selected music for their radio program from Cuba, “Radio Free Dixie,” collaborated on the famous book, Negroes with Guns, was a strong voice for her people in Canada, Cuba, Mexico, Moscow, China, Japan, Vietnam, Europe, and Africa, and met with revolutionary leaders, such as Fidel Castro, Ho Chi Minh, and Mao Zedong. This collection contains copies of the newsletter the Crusader as well as audio recordings of their radio program called Radio Free Dixie. Additionally, one can find writings by the Williams family as well as biographical writings on Robert F. Williams. There are also video clips of Mabel speaking from the Self-Respect, Self-Defense, and Self-Determination program in 2004 and audio clips of Mabel from an interview with Walter Turner, also in 2004.
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Mabel and Robert F. Williams
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Periodical
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2004
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1967
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1968
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1962
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1965
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Black Liberation
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Self-Defense
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Resistance
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African American
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Women
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Robert F. Williams
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Cuba
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Mabel Williams
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Robert F. Williams
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Mao Tse-Tung
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Ku Klux Klan (KKK)
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