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Radio Free Dixie
Date: 7/30/1965Call Number: RFW 001Format: CDProgram: Radio Free DixieCollection: Robert F. Williams!
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Several Short Cuban voice intros. The second one says- "broadcasting like Paul Revere, with a call for unity and armed self-defense." Jazz...then drums. "at the back door of Dixie, in the year of Revelation." "My Lord What a Morning" opens documentary piece on 1963 Birmingham Sunday bombing, explosion sound effects, 4 girls dead, 16-year old shot, others killed, strong Malcolm actuality--"this didn't happen in Nazi Germany, but here...it wasn't a dream it was a nightmare...the government is guilty." He's asked several questions, mentions Cuba and Vietnam. Comments on Dr. King. Africa, Asia, Latin America... applause at end. Upbeat music, then RFW commentary. "Mr. Charley rabble rouses against the people of Vietnam while brainwashing the oppressed Negro to accept non-violence. What a sham! ... Black men are forced to fight in white man's war. Greensboro, Alabama... Hitlerite... Georgia... racism without restraint yet chooses to label Black man a racist for refusing to submit to tyranny. A violent conflict of liberation..We must organize, unite... go underground..liberation is a serious undertaking. No shortcuts to freedom. In the spirit of 76..take to the streets...battle cry around the world...Freedom Freedom Freedom Now or Death!" 34:33 7/17/65 Pittsburgh Courier editorial on "Deacons of Justice" read by Mabel Williams. Government has miserably failed to protect the right to life. "The real surprise is that the Deacons were not formed long ago." Closing announcement. "Muy buenos noches and keep fighting for freedom."
Radio Free Dixie
Date: 4/23/1965Call Number: RFW 002Format: CDProgram: Radio Free DixieCollection: Robert F. Williams!
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Opening announcement. Radio Free Dixie presents Malcolm's voice as a voice of prophecy. Music includes Swanee River /Old Folks at Home (Ray Charles). Malcolm discusses the contribution of the Black Muslim movement as militancy…dared to get loud in our 400 years. Got more militant than they intended. Role of Negro leaders to cool things down. Muslim and Black nationalist groups face acceptability to civil rights groups. Discusses the MauMau/African independence. Takes madness not sadness to change things. You need more than a Mau Mau in the US. Goodman, Schwerner, Cheney..we need a MauMau. Other atrocities...we needa MauMau and I'll be the first to join it." Then back to discussion of Islam. Organization of Afro-American Unity. Need to overcome divide and conquer tactics. Talk on 1965 and the Prospects for Freedom. Africa advances; Tanzania. Vietnam. It's criminal. Wrong is wrong. Mentions Wayne Morse, etc..if I'm anti-American, so are they. China exploded the bomb--a scientific breathrough, I for one was happy to hear that they had overcome so much backwardness. Poor people can do it as well as rich people. March on Washington/Civil Rights Bill---try to lessen power of the explosion/but not do anything about the material that is explosive. They'll try a Black cabinet member...nice joke about being "investigated." More on Chaney, Goodman, Schwerner. "We intend to go PREPARED...when registering to vote. Talks about the rebellions--in 1965 even more blood will flow...downtown as well as uptown..why? Have the causes been removed?
Radio Free Dixie
Date: 12/11/1964Call Number: RFW 003Format: CDProgram: Radio Free DixieCollection: Robert F. Williams!
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Powerful militant statement by RFW. Opens with sax solo. Then Dixie tune…with opening announcement…mentions RAM. Uncle Toms may cry peace, but…under these conditions, peace would be to remain victims of savage oppressors. Racist social jungle. Where are the murderers of postman William Moore, of the 4 girls, of Medgar Evers, vicious killer cop murdererer of 15 year old Powell in NY? These Klan thugs are free tonight--as heroes of white supremacy. Murdered US Colonel Pinn...only action government took was to sound taps and give his widow a flag. Then discusses the Mae Mallory case and summarizes the so-called kidnapping. Reads story of Black woman civil rights demonstrators who rescues the police chief and she is arrrested! We are in battle and must conduct ourselves accordingly. A holding operation. Lists all the possible weapons...the bullet...a new spirit of meeting violence with violence. Our freedom and dignity is not negotiable...peace yes, it is truly wonderful...but Charley's concept of peace means war from cradle to the grave - Peace with dignity and justice. Take to the streets...battle cry again. Nina Simone...Mississippi Goddamn. Repeats of editorial from 7/18/1964 from Washington Afro American newspaper on the murder of educator named Colonel Lemuel Pinn and acquittal of two charged.
Radio Free Dixie
Date: 12/11/1964Call Number: RFW 005Format: CDProgram: Radio Free DixieCollection: Robert F. Williams!
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Harlem Riots, criticism of reformist groups especially CORE, Forman, MLK who sell 'gradualism', elections, Detroit editorial. The show intros and IDs include: ("You're listening to Radio Free Dixie, covering the racist Southland like Paul Revere with a call of, 'Freedom Now!'," and "You are tuned to Radio Free Dixie, exposing US racism to the whole world in the year of revolution." Mostly music.
Radio Free Dixie
Date: 4/20/1965Call Number: RFW 006Format: CDProgram: Radio Free DixieCollection: Robert F. Williams!
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Chou En Lai support for African Americans Connects US Black struggle to other international struggles (Vietnam, Congo, Dominican Republic), RFW on LA Watts Rebellion-- "the only justice we get is the justice we take"--"we will have justice or we will light a fire to the US," "organize & arm,--"[The US] cannot fight imperialist wars throughout the world and put down a colonial war at home simultaneously." Song by Nina Simone--"The Black Freighter". Crusader editorial on LA Rebellion.
Radio Free Dixie
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Track 1 - News reports: HUAC & Muslims, Mayor Yorty & LA, St Louis demonstration-police killing, German soldiers & Nigeria, Detroit, Monroe struggle--*RFW response - exile-- Track 2 - ABC News radio-- Track 3 - end of 1963 news-- Track 4 - music off radio-- Track 5 - music
Radio Free Dixie
Date: 1/22/1965Call Number: RFW 009Format: CDProgram: Radio Free DixieCollection: Robert F. Williams!
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Part 1 - Good intro, program all music
Radio Free Dixie
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Vietnam speech on Radio Free Dixie refers to March on Washington, Vietnam Day Committee with emphasis on Black struggle. There is a statement from South Vietnamese National Liberation Front (NLF), Ending "With all our hearts we are.."
Radio Free Dixie
Date: 11/29/1964Call Number: RFW 011Format: CDProgram: Radio Free DixieCollection: Robert F. Williams!
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Refers to Mao as “architect of people’s warfare” Cuban intro, women's voice, drums, upbeat - Dixieland style jazz. The blues song "I Don't Want to Have a War" then Cuban intro to the conference. Vietnam conference in Hanoi November 25-29, 1964, Anna Louise Strong speech but problematic quality. "All over the world today rises the cry Yankee Go Home!" or "Division in the world is between the oppressed and the oppressor" or "US imperialists get out of Vietnam." Her closing refers to strikes in Seattle in solidarity with Russian Revolution that she was part of.
Radio Free Dixie
Date: 1/21/1966Call Number: RFW 013Format: CDProgram: Radio Free DixieCollection: Robert F. Williams!
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1966 Tricontinental resolution (50:00-53:30), Afro-North Americans, condemns assassination of Malcolm X, "and keep fighting for freedom". Radio Free Dixie intro; five instrumental songs; "The Soul Side of Rock in the Year of Fire" program narrated by Mabel Williams: analysis of the role of soul artists in rock and roll in including social issues and "longing, suffering, dehumanization, and aspirations of a people in bondage" in popular music. comparison with spirituals from times of slavery.; more music with singing: "together we stand, divided we fall", "keep on pushing" "children are you ready" "people get ready" "we're gonna make it" "king of the road", "i wanna go home"; (31:20) RFW commentary on comic operas on civil rights struggles as most offensive and dehumanizing, bittersweet victory of Mr. Weaver (an African-American man) being appointed to White House cabinet "while another was denied his right to take his seat as the duly elected senator of Georgia", tokenism used to lull oppressed masses to sleep, "freedom now or death"; Resolution on the Human Rights of Afro-Americans in the USA adopted by Tri-Continental Conference in Havana Cuba Jan 3-12, 1966.
