Radio Free Dixie
Robert F. Williams and the Roots of Black Power
Timothy B. Tyson
Publisher: University of North Carolina Press
Imprint: The University of North Carolina Press
Published: 11/2009
Pages: 416
Subject: Biography and Autobiography, History, Political Science
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Print ISBN: 9.78E+12
eBook ISBN: 9780807899014
DESCRIPTION
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.