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Radio Free Dixie: Robert F. Williams and the Roots of Black Power New Edition
Author(s): Timothy B. Tyson (Author)
- Publisher: The University of North Carolina Press
- Publication Date: 31 Oct. 1999
- Edition: New
- Language: English
- Print length: 416 pages
- ISBN-10: 9780807825020
- ISBN-13: 0807825026
Book Description
The story of Robert F. Williams, an influential and controversial black rights activist of the generation that toppled Jim Crow and altered American history. Former President of the Munroe branch of the NAACP, Williams was forced to flee to Cuba, where he broadcast “Radio Free Dixie”.
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Captures the life and legacy of Robert F. Williams (1925-96), the militant and controversial black activist who challenged both white supremacists and the civil rights establishment in the 1950s and 1960s. ‘[A] radiant biography. . . . Tyson sharpens our historical focus, demonstrating just how crucial self-defense, guns, and nonviolence were to the successes of the black freedom struggle.”?Village Voice Literary Supplement
