Robert Franklin Williams Speaks

<p>Williams was a compassionate man. He was an intelligent American citizen and Korean war veteran who claimed his right of American citizenship. Acutely aware of the broken promises of the US government he remained fully invested in the rights privileges and responsibilities the Constitution guaranteed all of its citizens. As many of his contemporaries now confess Williams's strength and appeal as explained by his second son John Williams was his uncompromising stance and determination to act on the American dream he imagined for social economic and political equality for African Americans. The skills he acquired as a journalist and propaganda specialist were key to his political development evolution and transnational collaborations with Cuba and China which he used to challenge domestic policies in the United States were way beyond the imagination of his supporters in the United States. Williams ultimately used these strengths strategies and collaborations to deliver liberting messages of freedom resistance and social and economic equality on behalf of the rights of African Americans. Williams significantly contributed to the Black freedom struggle and should not be forgotten. <em>Robert Franklin Williams Speaks: A Documentary History</em> includes a collection of interviews speeches and writings by and about Williams as an internationalist pragmatist and civil and human rights champion.</p>