Radio Free Dixie, Second Edition
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Radio Free Dixie, Second Edition

Robert F. Williams and the Roots of Black Power

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Radio Free Dixie, Second Edition

Robert F. Williams and the Roots of Black Power

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This classic book tells the remarkable story of Robert F. Williams (1925-1996), one of the most influential black activists of the generation that toppled Jim Crow and forever altered the arc of American history. In the late 1950s, Williams, as president of the Monroe, North Carolina, branch of the NAACP, and his followers used machine guns, dynamite, and Molotov cocktails to confront Klan terrorists. Advocating "armed self-reliance, " Williams challenged not only white supremacists but also Martin Luther King Jr. and the civil rights establishment. Forced to flee during the 1960s to Cuba--where he broadcast "Radio Free Dixie, " a program of black politics and music that could be heard as far away as Los Angeles and New York City--and then to China, Williams remained a controversial figure for the rest of his life. Radio Free Dixie reveals that nonviolent civil rights protest and armed resistance movements grew out of the same soil, confronted the same predicaments, and reflected the same quest for African American freedom. As Robert Williams's story demonstrates, independent black political action, black cultural pride, and armed self-reliance operated in the South in tension and in tandem with legal efforts and nonviolent protest.

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Publisher
The University of North Carolina Press
Year
2020
ISBN
9781469652047
Edition
2
Topic
Social Sciences
Subtopic
Social Science Biographies
Index
Social Sciences

Table of contents

  1. Front Cover
  2. Title Page
  3. Copyright Page
  4. Dedication
  5. Contents
  6. Preface to the Second Edition
  7. Introduction: On Trembling Earth
  8. Chapter 1. The Legacies
  9. Chapter 2. Wars for Democracy
  10. Chapter 3. I’d Rather Die and Go to Hell
  11. Chapter 4. The Kissing Case
  12. Chapter 5. Communist Front Shouts Kissing Case to the World
  13. Chapter 6. The Sissy Race of All Mankind
  14. Chapter 7. Crusaders
  15. Chapter 8. Cuba Libre
  16. Chapter 9. When Fire Breaks Out
  17. Chapter 10. Freedom Rider
  18. Conclusion: Radio Free Dixie
  19. Notes
  20. Bibliography
  21. Acknowledgments
  22. Index
  23. Back Cover