Episode 222: Mabel Williams




BMA: Black Media Archive show

Summary: This episode is a short lecture given by civil rights activist Mabel Williams on Martin Luther King Day in Grand Rapids, Michigan (January 15, 2007). Williams, along with her husband Robert, was active in the NAACP leadership and in armed self-defense against the Klan in Monroe, North Carolina. The couple was exiled and engaged in international solidarity work from Cuba before moving back to the United States.