[News] Sunday, March 14 - Mabel Williams and Kathleen Cleaver event

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The Freedom Archives, East Side Arts Alliance and Malcolm X Grassroots 
Organization, along with Hard Knock Radio and other community activists are 
sponsoring a moderated dialogue with Mabel Williams and Kathleen Cleaver. 
This conversation will focus on the emergence of the Black Power movement, 
self-defense as a human right, and their roles as leading women in the 
Black liberation struggle.

Sunday, March 14th, 7:00 pm
First Congregational Church - 27th & Harrison in Oakland
$10 donation, $5 students - no one turned away for lack of funds

Mabel Williams
Mabel Williams is the widow of the late Robert Franklin Williams, the 
author of Negroes with Guns, a book which describes their activities in the 
civil rights struggle in Monroe, NC during the 1950s and early 1960s. They 
were both exiled with their 2 sons from 1961-69 in Cuba and the People's 
Republic of China. She travelled  internationally with Robert to such 
places as Hanoi, Moscow and Tanzania. They returned to the US in 1969 and 
continued their struggle for human and civil rights until Robert's passing 
in 1996. As a result of her lifelong commitment to the human rights 
struggle, Mabel makes a unique contribution to this history. Mabel 
participated in the creation of their newsletter: The Crusader, and the 
radio program: Radio Free Dixie, which emanated from Cuba and could be 
heard throughout the South in the 60s. Mabel continues to be actively 
engaged in her community and is promoting the legacy of Idlewild, Michigan, 
a Black resort area that was developed in the 1920s and was the only place 
where Black in the Midwest could go for family entertainment during the 
1940s and 1950s during the segregation era.

Kathleen Cleaver
Kathleen Cleaver, a major voice in the Black liberation movements of the 
1960s and 70s, continues today, to speak out against racism, sexism and 
economic inequality. In 1966, Cleaver fist became active in the Student 
Non-Violent Coordinating Committee (SNCC). From 1967 to 1971, she was the 
Communications Secretary of the Black Panther Party and the first woman 
member of its Central Committee. After sharing years of exile with her 
former husband Eldridge Cleaver, she returned to the United States in late 
1975. Since graduating from Yale Law School in 1987, Cleaver has combined 
legal work, teaching and activism. She has taught at numerous universities 
including Emory, Yale and Sara Lawrence. She served on the Georgia Supreme 
Court Commission on Racial and Ethnic Bias in the Courts and became a Board 
Member of the Atlanta-based Southern Center for Human Rights. She has been 
active in the campaigns to free death row prisoner Mumia Abu-Jamal and 
former Panther Geronimo Pratt (released in 1997). Her writings and essays 
have appeared in numerous magazines, books and newspapers and her memoir, 
Memories of Love and War, is forthcoming from Random House.


The Freedom Archives
522 Valencia Street
San Francisco, CA 94110
(415) 863-9977
www.freedomarchives.org  
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