Black Liberation
The
Black Liberation movement grew out of the civil rights movement and was
made up of many militant organizations dedicated to freedom for
African-Americans, such as the Black Panther Party, the Black Liberation
Army, and the Republic of New Africa. The collection includes extensive
files on, but is not limited to, these three organizations, with
additional materials on Pan-African organizations, the revolutionary
prison movement, and other diverse publications of many different
organizations and individuals, including pamphlets, ephemera,
periodicals, newspapers, theoretical writings, and poetry.
Documents
Radio Free Dixie
Date: 5/28/1965Call Number: RFW 014Format: CDProgram: Radio Free DixieCollection: Robert F. Williams!
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Blues, social conditions 1890-1940s, made in UK, artists anonymous, Blues in the Mississippi Night proudly dedicated to the gallant freedom fighters resolutely struggling against US racism and imperialism
Radio Free Dixie
Date: 5/28/1965Call Number: RFW 015Format: CDProgram: Radio Free DixieCollection: Robert F. Williams!
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Blues in the Mississippi Night, part 1 - all material on this CD is the same as the material on RFW 014
Radio Free Dixie
Date: 5/28/1965Call Number: RFW 016Format: CDProgram: Radio Free DixieCollection: Robert F. Williams!
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Blues in the Mississippi Night, part 2 - chain gang songs, stories from former chain gang workers, some material repeated on RFW 014
Radio Free Dixie
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Includes an editorial from 7/8/64 Washington Afro-American about the murder of educator and civil rights activist, Lemuel Penn.
RF Williams at Great hall of the People
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RFW speech at Great Hall of the People on third anniversary of Mao's statement: “Black power means that Black men want to have some control over their own lives. To have a respected voice in public affairs that affect them.” “Black power is a dissident force challenging the racist white power structure that is so heinously exterminating the people of Vietnam and threatening the world with nuclear destruction.” Also covers: Other US liberation struggles (American Indian, Puerto Rican); International Solidarity
Critique of LBJ, RFK. “Black nationalism is a survival reaction to white nationalism” opposition to Vietnam War and rejecting the Black role in fighting it. US as fascist nation.
Ordeal of Change
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Ordeal of Change Reading. Sound very poor.
Mabel Williams Interview, Part 1
Date: 5/30/2003Call Number: RFW 021Format: CDProducers: Claude Marks, Lincoln BergmanCollection: Robert F. Williams!
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1 of 3 CDs, addresses: making change; effects of segregation; RFW's upbringing; Williams family home life in Monroe; making change part 2; things can change - surprises; international allies; first trip to Cuba; early relationship to Malcolm X; support groups in New York City; RFW's military training; role in the NAACP and the legal system; position on self-defense; the rifle club; publishing The Crusader; dialogue with Malcolm X; alleged kidnapping in Monroe; decision to leave Monroe; support in NYC after leaving Monroe; government support of KKK in Monroe; Mabel William's role and specific activities; different kinds of targeting by the government.(50:11)
Mabel Williams Interview, Part 2
Date: 5/30/2003Call Number: RFW 022Format: CDProducers: Claude Marks, Lincoln BergmanCollection: Robert F. Williams!
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2 of 3 CDs, addresses: conflicting relationship with the NAACP; takeover of NAACP rally in Harlem and crowd booing speakers; activist spirit of the time after leaving Monroe; sense of internationalism; visit from Japanese woman student and professor; alleged kidnapping part 2; decision to leave Monroe; decision to leave New York; decision to leave Canada; decision to go to Cuba; getting to Cuba; reception in Cuba; production of The Crusader in Exile; birth of Radio Free Dixie; response to the events in Birmingham; political struggles in Cuba; decision to leave Cuba; conflict with US Communist Party in Cuba; previous visits to China; political understanding of differences between communism in China and Soviet Union; RFW interviewed by Czech theorist; RFW interviewed and called a Trotskyite (66:28)
Mabel Williams Interview, Part 3
Date: 5/30/2003Call Number: RFW 023Format: CDProducers: Claude Marks, Lincoln BergmanCollection: Robert F. Williams!
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3 of 3 CDs, addresses: decision to leave Cuba part 2; arrival in China; previous visit to Hanoi; living in China; meeting with Premier Chou; meeting with Kissinger at party; RFW's time in Tanzania; Williams family in Tanzania; Mabel Williams and boys return to the US; RFW returns to the US; RFW's legal battles upon return to the US; "the struggle continues"; contradictions within the US government; power of community-building; message to young people (48:03)
The Question of Afro-American Manhood, Part 1
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Intro to RFW by Elombe Brath. Tells part of NAACP NY rally story. First speaker is Robert Harris--wild maniac Europeans in North Carolina. Negroes with Guns… I'll not befriend my exterminator! Brother Kwando Kinshasha, was one of Panther 21--the book Negroes with Guns--a Negro with a gun is an African...refers to Battle of Algiers...a landless nation..summary of "how we greet Robert Williams--the converting of words into deeds!" Refers to Africa, Haiti, South Africa--three lessons of RFW--organization, struggle, and self-defense. A fellow warrior in our peoples struggle in our peoples struggle and for self-determination. Next is Vicki Garvin....4 years in Ghana and six years in China.. She says: I'm honored to be here...met him in the 1950s...close relationship with Malcolm X--Rob took the initiative to heads of states of five countries...only Mao responded in 1963. 1 million people mass demonstration, when Mao's 2nd statement after MLK assassination. Brath mentions liberation theology, Aristide. Father Lawrence Lucas speaks--speaks on the idiocy of non-violence--very militant--refers to Colin Powell killing for the crackers—the criminal justice system--"because it is criminal and it is far removed from justice. " ("Theologically speaking, for the FBI agents who are here taking notes..."). NY 8 plus case. Roger Wareham, Dec 12th movement, next speaker. Robert Williams begins speaking, welcomed back to Harlem: Harlem has special place in my heart. Mosque #7--Malcolm minister, collected money--for guns and ammunution. We were united. Even had a white Catholic priest who was helping us. Importance of each other--what a united front is, what it means. how did he get to cuba? to china? because of YOU. picture in post office—500 agents to his case...FOIA files.. Demonstrations in the south--torture of civil rights demonstrators. Gotta have a deterrent. We rose up! Young people on a (drug) trip—shooting up--Opium comment--China, British brought it in...when I left here students were making revolution—when I came home, they were sitting in the yard, everybody sleepin'--a drug problem. In China, how they overcame it. "We are the only people in the world who require our leaders to die to prove that they are genuine!". Support from Japan--tells Kissinger story. Refers to Birmingham Sunday, told little Chinese girls about it. "Uncle when you go home--when we get grown we gonna liberate them." Land base area--Chen Yi send trips. Got to forge this link with people. Tells story about Cuba and his sons and air force officers. Told them to fire--I did it for you! Take this parachute and remember. Mentions Radio Free Dixie...playing jazz...when I came back Knight publications were whispering he was an agent. Detroit--University of Michigan, center for Chinese studies. We have to be on guard, educate our people. we are losing our muscle--muscle comes from young men--they are killing them off. tells story of prison in Britain, hunger strike. put him in hospital. chaplain.
