Item #20941 Black America Arm Yourselves for a War of Self Defense & Survival: A Black America Special. Robert Williams.

Black America Arm Yourselves for a War of Self Defense & Survival: A Black America Special

RAM: Black Liberation Front of the U.S.A., 1965. Pictorial wrappers. Uncommon 1965 collection of a number of the "radical" writings of Civil Rights leader Robert Williams (1925-1996), a firebrand in both the local labor union and within the NAACP of Monroe, North Carolina. Williams, who took "a militant stance against racism decades before the Black Power and black nationalist movements of the late 1960s and early ’70s", was forced "to flee the country in 1961. He lived in exile in Cuba for five years, where he wrote 'Negroes with Guns' (1962), which was later used for a documentary on Williams and the Black Power movement. He left Cuba for China, where he lived for three more years before returning to the United States in 1969." Williams was presumably based in China when this newspaper of his writings appeared in the mid-60s. Fragile and ephemeral but still well-preserved and very presentable. Clean and VG+ to Near Fine in its stapled, pictorial wrappers. Quarto, illustrated throughout and well-formatted, in spite of its undoubtedly hand-to-mouth budget. Very Good +. Item #20941

Price: $500.00

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