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Radio Free Dixie: Robert F. Williams and the Roots of Black Power
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Item specifics
- Condition
- ISBN
- 9780807849231
- Book Title
- Radio Free Dixie : Robert F. Williams and the Roots of Black Power
- Item Length
- 9.2in
- Publisher
- University of North Carolina Press
- Publication Year
- 2001
- Format
- Trade Paperback
- Language
- English
- Item Height
- 0.9in
- Genre
- Biography & Autobiography, History, Political Science
- Topic
- Cultural Heritage, United States / 20th Century, Civil Rights, Political Process / Political Advocacy
- Item Width
- 6.1in
- Item Weight
- 5 oz
- Number of Pages
- 416 Pages
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This book tells the remarkable story of Robert F. Williams--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, as president of the Monroe, North Carolina, branch of the NAACP, Williams and his followers used machine guns, dynamite, and Molotov cocktails to confront Klan terrorists. Advocating "armed self-reliance" by blacks, 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 China, Williams remained a controversial figure for the rest of his life. Historians have customarily portrayed the civil rights movement as a nonviolent call on America's conscience--and the subsequent rise of Black Power as a violent repudiation of the civil rights dream. But Radio Free Dixie reveals that both 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."Stunning. . . . Radio Free Dixie presents an engaging portrait of one man's continuous struggle to resist political and social oppression.-- Emerge " A] radiant biography. . . . Tyson is that rarest of writers: a successful scholar who can actually tell a compelling story in clear, even handsome language.-- Village Voice Literary Supplement "Tyson's firecracker text crackles with brilliant and lasting images of black life . . . across the South in the '40s, '50s and '60s. . . . Tyson successfully portrays Williams as a troubled visionary, a strong, stubborn and imperfect man, one who greatly influenced what became the Black Power Movement and its young leaders.-- Publishers Weekly This book tells the riveting story of controversial black activist Robert F. Williams (1925-1996). In the late 1950s, as president of the Monroe, North Carolina, NAACP, Williams organized armed resistance to KKK terrorists--in the process challenging not only white supremacists but also Martin Luther King Jr. and the civil rights establishment. 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 politics, black cultural pride, and "armed self-reliance" operated in tension and in tandem with legal efforts and nonviolent protests in the quest for African American freedom.
Product Identifiers
Publisher
University of North Carolina Press
ISBN-10
0807849235
ISBN-13
9780807849231
eBay Product ID (ePID)
1804197
Product Key Features
Book Title
Radio Free Dixie : Robert F. Williams and the Roots of Black Power
Format
Trade Paperback
Language
English
Topic
Cultural Heritage, United States / 20th Century, Civil Rights, Political Process / Political Advocacy
Publication Year
2001
Genre
Biography & Autobiography, History, Political Science
Number of Pages
416 Pages
Dimensions
Item Length
9.2in
Item Height
0.9in
Item Width
6.1in
Item Weight
5 oz
Additional Product Features
Lc Classification Number
99-11981 [F]
Edition Description
Reprint,New Edition
Reviews
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 ), Written in lucid and confident prose with a solid reliance on first-hand accounts, Radio Free Dixie presents an engaging portrait of one man's continuous struggle to resist political and social oppression. ( Emerge ), Tyson has written, with compelling prose and great insight, an excellent biography as well as a definitive history of armed self-defense doctrines in the civil rights movement. (The Journal of Southern History), Tyson has written, with compelling prose and great insight, an excellent biography as well as a definitive history of armed self-defense doctrines in the civil rights movement. ( The Journal of Southern History ), Tyson's firecracker text crackles with brilliant and lasting images of black life in the Carolinas and across the South in the 40s, 50s and 60s. ( Publishers Weekly ), A book that powerfully conveys the life and voice of one of the key personalities of the modern civil rights struggle. (American Historical Review), 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), Tyson's firecracker text crackles with brilliant and lasting images of black life in the Carolinas and across the South in the 40s, 50s and 60s. (Publishers Weekly), A book that powerfully conveys the life and voice of one of the key personalities of the modern civil rights struggle. ( American Historical Review ), Written in lucid and confident prose with a solid reliance on first-hand accounts, Radio Free Dixie presents an engaging portrait of one man's continuous struggle to resist political and social oppression. (Emerge)
Copyright Date
2001
Lccn
99-011981
Dewey Decimal
975.6/755
Intended Audience
Trade
Dewey Edition
21
Illustrated
Yes
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