The C.​O.​W.​S. The Memoirs of Robert & Mabel Williams Part 1 #CounterViolence #NegroesWithGuns #NorthCarolina

The C.​O.​W.​S. The Memoirs of Robert & Mabel Williams Part 1 #CounterViolence #NegroesWithGuns #NorthCarolina

July 10, 2026

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The episode discusses the memoirs of Robert and Mabel Williams, focusing on their contributions to armed resistance and international solidarity against white supremacy.

The Katherine Massey Book Club @ The C.O.W.S. debuts Session 1 on The Memoirs of Robert and Mabel Williams: African American Freedom, Armed Resistance, and International Solidarity. The Biography Kings have officially returned to primary-source reality. After a grueling 12-week forensic audit dismantling the sanitized academic distortions of The New Jim Crow, we wash our hands of corporate non-profit "Race Management" and return to the uncompromised gold standard of Black revolutionary history. This newly compiled text features previously unpublished, first-person manuscripts written by both Robert and Mabel Williams. Crucially, the text is co-edited by definitive historian Dr. Akinyele Umoja, who has been a featured guest on our program twice for his masterwork We Will Shoot Back. More than a decade after our comprehensive review of the foundational text Negroes With Guns, we step back into the trenches of Monroe, North Carolina, to trace how the Williamses organized armed self-defense guards to repel Ku Klux Klan motorcades.Most importantly, this joint memoir shatters the provincial limits of typical domestic political discourse. While much of mainstream, so-called "Black…

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