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Radio Free Dixie: Robert F. Williams and the Roots of Black Power
Timothy B. Tyson
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Description for Radio Free Dixie: Robert F. Williams and the Roots of Black Power
Paperback. This biography tells the story of controversial black activist, Robert F. Williams (1925-1996). President of the Monroe NAACP, Williams organized armed resistance to KKK terrorists, challenging not only white supremacists but also the civil rights establishment. Num Pages: 416 pages, 33 illustrations, notes, bibliography, index. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JJP; BGH; JFFJ; JFSL; JPVH1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 230 x 150 x 23. Weight in Grams: 630.
A gripping biography of a controversial black activist This biography tells the riveting story of Robert F. Williams (1925-1996). In the late 1950s, as president of the Monroe, North Carolina, NAACP, Williams organized armed resistan to KKK terrorists - in the process challenging not only white supremacists but also Martin Luther King Jr. and the civil rights movement. As Radio Free Dixie reveals, however, the civil rights movement and the Black Power movement grew out of the same soil, confronted the same predicaments, and were much closer than traditional portrayals suggest. In the civil rights - era South, independent black ... Read more
A gripping biography of a controversial black activist This biography tells the riveting story of Robert F. Williams (1925-1996). In the late 1950s, as president of the Monroe, North Carolina, NAACP, Williams organized armed resistan to KKK terrorists - in the process challenging not only white supremacists but also Martin Luther King Jr. and the civil rights movement. As Radio Free Dixie reveals, however, the civil rights movement and the Black Power movement grew out of the same soil, confronted the same predicaments, and were much closer than traditional portrayals suggest. In the civil rights - era South, independent black ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2001
Publisher
The University of North Carolina Press
Condition
New
Number of Pages
416
Place of Publication
Chapel Hill, United States
ISBN
9780807849231
SKU
V9780807849231
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About Timothy B. Tyson
Winner of the 2000 James A. Rawley Prize, Organization of American Historians Co-winner of the 2000 Frederick Jackson Turner Prize, Organizati of American Historians Timothy B. Tyson is associate professor of Afro-American studie at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
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