The Memoirs of Robert and Mabel Williams

Akinyele K. Umoja is a professor of Africana studies at Georgia State University.

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Gloria Aneb House is a poet, activist, and professor emerita at University of Michigan–Dearborn and associate professor emerita in African American studies at Wayne State University.
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John H. Bracey Jr. (d. 2023) was a professor of Afro-American studies at University of Massachusetts Amherst.
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"The insights of the editors, established activists who were involved with the movement when the Williamses' international travel and activism was at its height, make for a truly valuable read." —Edward Onaci, author of Free the Land: The Republic of New Afrika and the Pursuit of a Black Nation-State

"These memoirs are rich with anecdotes and are crucial in helping flesh out many storylines about the Black freedom struggle. Together they offer intimate portraits of important actors and events in the United States and abroad."—Charles Payne, author of I've Got the Light of Freedom: The Organizing Tradition and the Mississippi Freedom Struggle