The Memoirs of Robert and Mabel Williams: African American Freedom, Armed Resistance and International Solidarity - Couverture souple

Williams, Robert F.; Williams, Mabel R.

 
9781469680132: The Memoirs of Robert and Mabel Williams: African American Freedom, Armed Resistance and International Solidarity
Couverture souple
ISBN 10 : 1469680130 ISBN 13 : 9781469680132
Editeur : The University of North Carolina Press, 2025

Synopsis

Born in Jim Crow–era Monroe, North Carolina, Robert F. Williams and Mabel Williams were the state's most legendary African American freedom fighters. Robert organized an armed paramilitary group to protect his community from the violent attacks of the Ku Klux Klan. The Williamses' leadership in Monroe was just the beginning of their lifelong pursuit of freedom and justice for Black people in the United States and for oppressed populations throughout the world. Their activism foreshadowed major developments in the civil rights and Black Power movements, including Malcolm X's advocacy of fighting oppression "by any means necessary," the emergence of the Black Panther Party, and Black solidarity with Third World liberation movements.

Robert documented his experiences in Monroe in his classic 1962 book, Negroes with Guns, and completed a draft of his memoir, While God Lay Sleeping, months before his death in 1996. Mabel began a memoir of her own before her death in 2014. The family estate selected John Bracey Jr., Akinyele Umoja, and Gloria Aneb House to edit and complete the manuscripts. The two are presented together in this book, offering a gripping portrait of these pioneering freedom fighters that is both deeply intimate and a fierce call to action in the ongoing fight against racial injustice.

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À propos des auteurs

Akinyele K. Umoja is a professor of Africana studies at Georgia State University.

Gloria Aneb House is a poet, activist, and professor emerita at University of Michigan-Dearborn and associate professor emerita in African American studies at Wayne State University.

John H. Bracey Jr. (d. 2023) was a professor of Afro-American studies at University of Massachusetts Amherst.

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Éditeur
The University of North Carolina Press
Date d'édition
2025
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
1469680130
ISBN 13 
9781469680132
Reliure
Broché
Nombre de pages
360
Éditeur
Umoja Akinyele K., House Gloria Aneb, Jr. John H. Bracey
Coordonnées du fabricant
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Personne responsable
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9781469680125: The Memoirs of Robert and Mabel Williams: African American Freedom, Armed Resistance and International Solidarity

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ISBN 10 :  1469680122 ISBN 13 :  9781469680125
Editeur : The University of North Carolina..., 2025
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