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Robert F. Williams

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Robert F. Williams

American civil rights activist (1925–1996)

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About Robert F. Williams

Robert Franklin Williams was an American civil rights leader and author best known for being president of the Monroe, North Carolina chapter of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) in the 1950s and into 1961 and serving as the first president of the provisional government of the Republic of New Afrika (RNA), a black nationalist and separatist organization. During the Jim Crow era, Williams succeeded in integrating the local public library and swimming pool in Monroe. At a time of high racial tension and official abuses, Williams promoted armed Black self-defense in the United States. In addition, he helped gain support for gubernatorial pardons in 1959 for two young African American boys who had received lengthy reformatory sentences in what was known as the Kissing Case of 1958.

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Occupation: autobiographer, radio personality, civil rights advocate, author
Citizenship: United States
Born: February 26, 1925
Died: October 15, 1996

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