Born February 26, 1925
Monroe, North Carolina
Died October 15, 1996
Grand Rapids, Michigan

Civil rights activist and revolutionary

In the late 1950s a different kind of civil rights movement was taking place in Monroe, North Carolina. In that town of six thousand, where the Ku Klux Klan (the Ku Klux Klan is an anti-black terrorist group formed in the South in the aftermath of the Civil War that has for decades intimidated and committed acts of violence against African Americans and members of other racial and ethnic minorities and religious groups) and the police rode roughshod over the African American community, the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) fought back with arms. Many members of that renegade NAACP branch were veterans of the armed forces. Their leader was Robert F. Williams.

Born to a family of black rights defenders

Robert Franklin Williams was born...