Born in Jim Crow–era Monroe, North Carolina, Robert F. Williams and Mabel R. Williams were the state’s most legendary African American freedom fighters. The Williamses’ leadership in Monroe was just the beginning of a lifelong pursuit of freedom and justice for Black people in the United States and for oppressed populations throughout the world. Their […]
From Monroe, North Carolina to the global stage, Robert and Mabel Williams stood at the forefront of the struggle for justice. Their fight for Black liberation and international solidarity helped shape the path of the Civil Rights and Black Power movements — inspiring Malcolm X, the Black Panther Party, and global freedom struggles. This gripping […]
Click to Buy Tickets Mamie Lang Kirkland was seven years old when she fled Ellisville, Mississippi in 1915 with her mother and siblings as her father and his friend, John Hartfield, escaped an approaching lynch mob. John Hartfield returned to Mississippi in 1919 and was killed in one of the most horrific lynchings of the […]
