"Negros With Guns": A RBG Tribute to Robert F. Williams
"The prospect of peaceful integration is dead.
White sanity is dead.The American Dream is dead and the cringing nigger is dead. All were killed by the White man's satanic hatred and violence."
- Robert Franklin Williams, Beijing, May 1968
(commenting on assassination of the Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr.)
1956: US Army & Marine Corps vet Robert Franklin Williams attempts to integrate the Monroe, North Carolina swimming pool. The Ku Klux Klan answers with violence. Williams & other Black vets form their "Guard" a self-defense unit assisted by Malcolm-X, whose New York mosque contributes arms funds.
1961: "Freedom Riders" ask Williams & the Guard not to intervene during their pacifist integration efforts in Monroe. They are attacked & beaten by the KKK. The Chief of Police threatens to hang Williams in front of the Court House. National Guard tanks are sent to occupy Monroe. Williams escapes with his family to New York. Charged with kidnapping & hunted by the FBI, Williams is granted asylum by Fidel Castro. In Cuba he publishes The Crusader" and broadcasts his "Radio Free Dixie," predicting ghetto uprisings & urban guerilla warfare.
1965: Discovering that the Cubans have reduced Radio Free Dixie's transmission range, Williams moves to China, where he continues publishing "The Crusader," urging Black GIs fighting in Viet Nam to turn their guns against racists in the USA. Pres. Lyndon Johnson orders "The Crusader" banned from the US mails.
1969: Returning to the USA, arrested & released on bond, Williams lives in Michigan while fighting the 1961 kidnapping charges, eventually dropped for lack of evidence. Distancing himself from the Black Separatist Movement, he mollifies his earlier predictions of an impending race war and becomes increasingly pessimistic about the erosion of the gains of the Civil Rights Movement of the 1960s.
1996: Williams death at 71 from natural causes is the subject of a major New York Times obituary.
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White sanity is dead.The American Dream is dead and the cringing nigger is dead. All were killed by the White man's satanic hatred and violence."- Robert Franklin Williams, Beijing, May 1968
(commenting on assassination of the Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr.)
1956: US Army & Marine Corps vet Robert Franklin Williams attempts to integrate the Monroe, North Carolina swimming pool. The Ku Klux Klan answers with violence. Williams & other Black vets form their "Guard" a self-defense unit assisted by Malcolm-X, whose New York mosque contributes arms funds.1961: "Freedom Riders" ask Williams & the Guard not to intervene during their pacifist integration efforts in Monroe. They are attacked & beaten by the KKK. The Chief of Police threatens to hang Williams in front of the Court House. National Guard tanks are sent to occupy Monroe. Williams escapes with his family to New York. Charged with kidnapping & hunted by the FBI, Williams is granted asylum by Fidel Castro. In Cuba he publishes The Crusader" and broadcasts his "Radio Free Dixie," predicting ghetto uprisings & urban guerilla warfare.
1965: Discovering that the Cubans have reduced Radio Free Dixie's transmission range, Williams moves to China, where he continues publishing "The Crusader," urging Black GIs fighting in Viet Nam to turn their guns against racists in the USA. Pres. Lyndon Johnson orders "The Crusader" banned from the US mails.
1969: Returning to the USA, arrested & released on bond, Williams lives in Michigan while fighting the 1961 kidnapping charges, eventually dropped for lack of evidence. Distancing himself from the Black Separatist Movement, he mollifies his earlier predictions of an impending race war and becomes increasingly pessimistic about the erosion of the gains of the Civil Rights Movement of the 1960s.
1996: Williams death at 71 from natural causes is the subject of a major New York Times obituary.
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