Mabel Williams Speaks! Advice to Black Youth
Channel: Matthew Siegfried
Date: 2015-06-03

Mabel Williams Speaks! Advice to Black Youth "Learn history, love your people, seek allies, and choose a side." From a 2004 interview.

"Mabel Williams spent the majority of her life fighting for civil rights during a tumultuous period in America’s history and was eventually exiled from the U.S., but her resolve to help others never faltered — even as the lives of her family were threatened.

She had a courageous spirit and often worked alongside her husband, the late civil rights activist and author Robert Williams Sr., to bring attention to issues facing African Americans throughout the country, according to her son, the Rev. John Williams.

Mabel Williams died April 19 at the age of 82 in Baldwin.

She was born in Monroe, N.C., on June 1, 1931, and married Robert Williams when she was a teenager. They eventually had two children, Robert Jr. and John. Together, the couple became involved in the U.S. civil and human rights struggle and the Black Liberation Movement."