Button, Robert F. Williams
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Title |
Button, Robert F. Williams |
Description |
Pin-back button bearing a quotation from Robert F. Williams. The black button has white text reading, "'BLACK YOUTH / THE WORLD IS YOURS - / TAKE IT'" / ROBT. F. WILLIAMS." 36mm in diameter. |
Subject (tgm) |
Buttons (Information artifacts) Quotations African Americans |
Subject Name |
Williams, Robert F. (Robert Franklin), 1925-1996. |
Usage Statement |
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Notes |
Robert F. Williams (1925-1996) was born in Monroe, North Carolina. He became president of the Monroe chapter of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP), and worked to integrate several Monroe institutions. He was a strong advocate of self-defense by African Americans. In 1961, Freedom Riders, mixed-race groups riding interstate buses into Southern states that had ignored U.S. Supreme Court rulings against segregation of the interstate bus system, arrived in Monroe. Following violent opposition by whites to the Freedom Riders, Roberts was accused of a trumped-up kidnapping charge. Williams and his wife fled the country, living in Cuba and China. While in Cuba, Williams wrote the book "Negroes With Guns" which influenced Huey P. Newton, the founder of the revolutionary socialist Black Panther Party. When Williams returned to the United States in 1969, he was immediately arrested. When tried on the kidnapping charges in Monroe in 1975, the state of North Carolina dropped all charges against him. |
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Buttons (Information artifacts) |
Digital Collection |
Lew Powell |
Repository |
North Carolina Collection, Wilson Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill |
Host |
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill |
Citation |
North Carolina Collection, Wilson Special Collections Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill |
filename |
nccg_ck_1287-3440.tif |
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