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Radio Free Dixie: Robert F Williams & the Roots of Black power by Timothy B. Tyson is a true story of a different perspective besides Martin Luther King jr or Malcolm X. It shows the life of Robert F. Williams a very influential black activist, and racism in all of its honesty. This showed that the “civil rights movement” and the “Black power movement” emerged from the same problems. They were fighting for the same goal too for African American freedom. He had experienced racism even though he was half white, and experienced it. The book was very informative of life when racism was more apparent. I think that books like this show that standing up to racism is an option. It shows that even children of a younger age were involved in the situation. …show more content…

He had seen firsthand how African Americans experienced brutality growing up. He had seen this when Jess Alexander Helms a police officer brutalized a black woman, and dragged her to the jail house. He had explained it as “the way a caveman would club and drag his sexual prey”. This shows how little rights African Americans had in these days because he was unable to do anything. All of this happened while other African American individuals walked away hurriedly. Williams had stood for an ideal of self-defense instead of the usual nonviolence. This situation showed how racism has chained African Americans to silence. This was show with the abuse that the African American woman had experienced but nobody had come to help …show more content…

He did not cause an uproar because he wanted to he fought for what he believed in. He tried to create a society without racism, and tried to stop the oppression which was always occurring with African Americans Even though Radio Dixie was a great book it had only the perspective of this one civil rights activist, and didn’t show you the perspectives of others. The work shows the side which the book leaned upon with civil rights, and racism. It may have been a more compelling book if there had been ideas addressed of white communities on slavery. It’s like a discussion which only looks at one side of the question. But at the same time it showed the brutality of racism back in the day. The author used a large amount of evidence to show the entirety of racism what has occurred throughout history, and was has been done to fight for

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