Mar 01, 2012 - Sale 2271

Sale 2271 - Lot 285

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A MAJOR INFLUENCE ON HUEY NEWTON (CIVIL RIGHTS.) WILLIAMS, ROBERT. The Crusader Monthly Newsletter. Illustrated with political cartoons by Chinese artist Anne B. Lin and others. 31 issues. Small 8vo, each 8 pages, accordion-folded, plus four issues stapled, 14-20 pages each. All are in fine condition. Havana and Peking, 1962-69
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an exceedingly scarce, almost unbroken run of this important black nationalist newsletter, published in exile, by robert and mabel Williams. Includes: Volume III, No.8-9 (April-May, 1862); Volume 4, Nos.1-8 (June/July, 1962-May 1963; Volume 5, No 1-4 (July/August, 1963-May/June, 1964; Volume 6, Nos 1-2 (July-August, 1964-April/May, 1965; Volume 7, No 1-3 (August 1965-March, 1966; Volume 8, Nos. 1-4 (October, 1966-May, 1967); Volume 9, No. 1-5 (July 1967-May, 1968); Volume10, Nos. 1-2 (November, 1968-Summer, 1969. Lacks only Volume 6, Nos 3. All issues up to and including Volume 7, Nos. 3 were printed in Havana, Cuba; all subsequent issued printed in Peking (Bejing), China. Volumes 1 and 2 were published in the United States.
Robert Williams (1925-1996) began publishing The Crusader intermittantly from 1959 when he was president of the Monroe, North Carolina branch of the NAACP. Williams, however was becoming more and more radicalized-and not a proponent of passive resistance. He came to the attention of the FBI when he organized a group call the Black Armed Guard. In 1961, Williams fled to Cuba to avoid an FBI warrant for his arrest on the charge of kidnapping a white couple. In fact, Williams had actually rescued the couple from an angry black crowd in downtown Monroe and kept them at his home until he thought it was safe for them to leave. J. Edgar Hoover with the Klan's cooperation pressured the couple into testifying against Williams. Williams had a radio program broadcast from Havana called "Radio Free Dixie," and continued to publish the Crusader in Cuba until problems with the Castro government brought about by the American Communist Party forced him to move to China, where he remained until 1969. A loud voice in favor of Black Power, Williams' 1962 manifesto "Negroes With Guns" is said to have been the single greatest influence on Huey Newton and the formation of the Black Panther Party. No complete run of this publication was located, and only a few held runs as long as the present one.